North Yorkshire Council

 

North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board 16th May 2025

ICB Annual Report

 

 

 

 


2.0         BACKGROUND

 

2.1         As part of the statutory duties of the ICB, the ICB is required to include an update on the delivery of the health and wellbeing strategy during the year as part of its Annual Report.

3.0         Humber & North Yorkshire ICB Annual Report – North Yorkshire Health & Wellbeing Section

 

3.1         The North YorkshireHealth and Wellbeing Board (NYHWB) is a collaboration of leaders from across the NHS, local government, and other partners which endeavours to promote integration and partnership in health and wellbeing provision across North Yorkshire.

3.2         The overall ambitionof the NYHWB is to reduce the gap in life expectancy, increase years of healthy life expectancy and reduce differences between health outcomes in our population; to add years to life, and life to years. The board's strategic priorities, prevention, place and people, focuson areas wherethere are opportunities for partners to work togetherto have a real impact on health and wellbeing outcomesfor people of all ages, to providechildren with the best start in life and to reduce health inequalities.

 

3.3         A detailed agenda of population focussed programmes sits beneath each of the strategic priorities and good progressis being made against each of them.Key achievements in 24/25 include:

 

·        Prevention – on-going implementation of the new national Modern General Practice model to support recovery of access to primary care in communities. This supports the continuing growth in the number of appointments available in GP Practices;

·        Place – a renewed focus on improving food infrastructure and the local food environment, taking a whole system approach that looks to provide accessible, sustainable and nutrient dense food, from food production to distribution, nutrition, consumption and food waste disposal and development of the first North Yorkshire Food Strategy; and

·        People - supporting the most vulnerable families with the cost of living by ensuring they are enrolled in schemes for which they are eligibleincluding free schoolmeals; the HealthyStart Scheme and government-funded childcare.

3.4         We look forward to continuing to work together in 25/26 to deliver the intentions of our Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2023-2030 through which we aim to make real, generational change to the health and wellbeing of people across North Yorkshire now, and for generations to come.

 

4.0         West Yorkshire ICB Annual Report –Bradford & CravenHealth & WellbeingSection

 

4.1         Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership is our place-based partnership where we Act as One with the ambition of keeping people ‘happy, healthy at home’. The partnership is made up of NHS, local authority, Healthwatch, community and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations and independent care providers. We are committed to working with North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board to fulfil our joint ambitions around integration, inequalities and impact to improve the health and wellbeing of people in North Yorkshire.

 

4.2         Our focus for Bradford District and Craven is on preventing ill health as much as possible, doing so through the lens of universal healthcare supported by population health and values- based healthcare. Working with our partners we will create opportunities that help people stay healthy, well, and independent and tackle inequalities across our communities. We will prioritise prevention and early intervention, fostering healthy lifestyles, self-care and nurturing active communities so that people are happier, healthier and more independent. When people need care and support from our services, it will be easy to access, joinedup, designed around their needs, and provided as close to where they live as possible.

 

4.3         We are developing our Health, Care and WellbeingStrategy – 2025-2035– to maximise the impact of our partnership, across all aspects of health and care delivery, alongside strengthening and drawing on our citizen voice to shape, take control, support and co- produce the way that services are developed, designed and delivered. Our strategy underpins our Act as One place strategyand will becomea core element within both the City of Bradford Council District and North Yorkshire Council Plans. Our strategy will support developments in Craven, such as the Airedale New Hospital Programme, ensuring it aligns with wider health and council plans and services, promoting the government’s three shifts, alongside local priorities.

 

4.4         The board's strategic priorities, prevention, place and people, focus on areas where there are opportunities for partners to work togetherto have a real impacton health and wellbeing outcomes for people of all ages, to provide children with the best start in life and to reduce health inequalities.

 

4.5         A detailed agenda of population focussed programmes sits beneath each of the strategic priorities and good progressis being made against each of them.Key achievements in 24/25 include:

 

·        Prevention – work on reducing inequalities with a specific focus on marginalised communities or those that have been impacted by systemic issues. This has included the launch of our women’shealth movement, and cancer screening programmes to help improve screening rates for people from ethnically and culturally diverse communities;

·        Place – work is taking shape to developour approach to integrated neighbourhood services and teams, buildingon the foundations we have developed throughour local and hyperlocal activity that is designed to help shift care from hospital to community and move from treatment of illness to prevention; and

·        People – our work is underpinned by focused efforts to understand, listen and act on what our communities and colleagues tell us. We have done this throughour Listen In programme and through our deliberative events that have focused on how we might need to transform

services to meet the financial challenges (and demographic changes) that face us now and in the future.

 

4.6         We want peopleto be healthier, happier, and have accessto high quality care that is clinically, operationally and financially stable. In other words, we want our population to be as safe as possible when accessing care while ensuringwe make the best use of our resources. This is an ambition that will help us contribute to the delivery of the North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2023-2030.

 

5.0        IMPLICATIONS

 

5.1         N/A.

6.0 RECOMMENDATION • To note the contents of the North Yorkshire and Bradford sections on Health and Wellbeing, included within the respective organisations' 2024/25 Annual Reports.

 

Report Authors – Mark Bradley, Acting North Yorkshire Place Director & Matt Sandford, Director of Partnership & Place for Bradford.

Presenters of Report – Mark Bradleyand Matt Sandford.