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March 2024 Welcome to the fourth edition of the West Yorkshire Voice Newsletter. In each newsletter, we will let you know about what is happening and ways to get involved in health and care across West Yorkshire. We will also share feedback about how people have been able to share their experiences and what has changed as a result of people getting involved and giving their feedback. Neurodiversity update A huge thank you to those who attended the Neurodiversity Pre-summit at the end of last year. The report that was taken to the full summit can be seen here, and continues to inform the work across the partnership to improve neurodiversity support. There will be more opportunities to be involved in this valuable work, and we will let you know how to get involved here. If you would like to let us know your interest please email: info@westyorkshirehealthwatch.co.uk Introducing the Pharmacy First service Understanding the changes in primary care: the new Pharmacy First service was an opportunity for patients to hear about this new service that more than 10,000 community pharmacies in England are offering. Our panel of experts explained how patients can get treatment for seven common conditions without the need for a GP appointment or prescription, at their local pharmacy. The patient member of the panel asked questions on behalf of all patients. Catch up with the session here The panelists were: David Webb, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England Pallavi Dawda, Head of Delivery, Clinical Strategy Community Pharmacy, NHS England Leighton Colegrave, member of Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB's Patient Engagement Forum Tunde Sokoya, community pharmacist, Essex Lindsey Fairbrother, community pharmacist, Derbyshire. What we’re hearing from children and young people During 2023, we visited 97 different community groups and talked to people in public settings like markets, bus stations or libraries right across Bradford District and Craven from Bentham to Bierley and everywhere in between. You can read what people told us, in reports about each locality. The strongest themes people talked to us about was challenging access to primary care. To take this information forward and act on what we’ve heard, we brought our citizens, our workforce, and our leaders together to think together about solutions and ideas that are now being acted on. You can get involved in our 'Listen in...so what page' In 2024, we are focusing on listening to communities whose voices are sometimes quieter in our system. Our cycles will reach out to key communities of interest over the year including: children, young people and their families - report now published inclusion health groups disabled people and their carers LGBTQ+ communities racialised communities If you'd like to find out more, or invite our partnership to 'listen in' to your community group please contact communications@bradford.nhs.uk Got 5 minutes to spare? Help the NHS by filling in our survey about disposing of medication The NHS in West Yorkshire is running an anonymous survey to understand what people know about disposing of excess medication and how to encourage correct disposal of medicine. Filling it out will help the NHS be more efficient with medication and reduce waste and environmental damage. Please use this link to complete the survey online. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete. The survey closes 11th March 2024.

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