What is YHIP
We are currently the only initiative dedicated to improving health and social care outcomes for Yorkshire and Humber. We work across health and social care boundaries and with a range of partners from both health, social care, criminal justice agencies and independent and third sectors to create the best overall outcomes for people and families who need support and/or use services. Our work is governed by a partnership board with full stakeholder representation. This board agree our business plan, monitor its implementation and agree investment priorities.
The YHIP team
Our office is in York but our staff are based and work across the region. We have a small central team, five programme leads and a staff team of over 50 all of whom are expert in service improvement in their fields. We are funded by the NHS 'bundle' money for our children, young people and families and mental health programmes and by the Department of Health (via the Deputy Regional Director for Social Care) for older people, learning disabilities and offender health and social care. Our overall annual budget is £4.021 million pounds.
Our key partners in the region are Primary Care Trusts, Local Authorities, Mental Health Trusts, and Strategic Health Authority, Third Sector and most importantly people and families who need support.
Regional work programmes
Our team’s expertise in health and social care improvement work across our five programmes means that we can translate national policy drivers such as Putting People First and Healthy Ambitions for Yorkshire and Humber into projects that are also responsive to the particular needs of people who live in our region.
Our work is delivered at a regional level where it makes sense to do so and at a local level where the need is clear.
We are working to improve health and social care services for:
- children, young people and families
- offender health
- mental health
- social care for older people and
- people with learning disabilities (valuing people)
The Healthy Ambitions diagram (on the left) shows how we work collaboratively on a regional, sub regional and local level to provide consistency across the region and a response that is tailored to local need.
As a shared service working across programmes and with a variety of partners including those in the third sector we can be flexible in the way we work and in sharing learning across programmes and partners. For example, our children, young people and families and learning disability programmes have pooled expertise to work on improving our regional ‘transition’ services for young people with learning disabilities in our region.