Working to embed inclusion across the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
Our team is positioned within a health and care partnership where we work alongside colleagues who champion our mission and understand that to tackle health inequalities the system needs to put inclusion at the heart of transformation and co-design with seldom heard communities.
We’ve summarised the projects across the partnership that our team are delivering or supporting:
Digital Care Hub
We are working with the Digital Care Hub at Airedale Hospital to help them understand how more people can make use of the digital elements of the MyCare24 COPD service that provides round the clock support for people living with COPD to keep them well at home.
Perinatal Mental Health
As part of the partnerships’ Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Programme we will be co-producing videos and other assets to be used to raise awareness of perinatal mental health with a particular focus on working with communities who face barriers or inequalities in this area.
Neurodiversity Deep Dive
We are supporting the partnership with the early stages of an all-age neurodiversity review of the current Autism and ADHD provisions across West Yorkshire. Our work involves establishing a steering group and engaging with individuals across the five West Yorkshire localities who have lived experience to understand current experiences and co-produce and iterate possible improvements.
Mental Health Referrals
We are working to co-design a tool that will support primary care staff to have conversations with people about their mental health, better support signposting into relevant services and making referrals to the services that will be most likely to help.
MyNeeds App
Phase two of the MyNeeds App project will involve developing a working minimal viable product (MVP) of the app - this means we will be using the prototype we co-designed with people across the region in phase one, and start to build the features of the app that are most important in helping people to express their needs. From there we plan to support an initial group of people to use the app and look at how this works for them and the impact it has on interactions with services.
Guiding Inclusive Co-design
Across the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership we are leading work to develop a set of Inclusive Co-design Principles which will be used to help ensure service innovation and improvements are always designed with the people who they are for in a consistent and meaningful way.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Within our host Trust we are working to embed inclusive digital transformation practice across three services; Forward Leeds, the Personality Disorder Service and the Learning Disability Service. We’ll work with teams to improve digital pathways, reduce digital exclusion and address health inequalities.
We’d like to extend our thanks to colleagues within our own Trust and those across the partnership such as Dawn Greaves, Shelley Russell, Jo Butterfield, Keir Shillaker, Fatima Khan-Shah and Rob Webster for their continued support of our work.
If you would like to find out more about our work, join our growing community of more than 300 members on the Inclusive Digital Transformation Challenge workspace hosted on FutureNHS or get in touch via thrivebydesign.lypft@nhs.net to discuss a specific project.
