This Weeks Featured Board Members
Karol Wyszynski
Emma Stafford
Abdul Ismail
Mohammed Mahboob
Featured Blog Posts
The People’s Board are Recruiting!
The time is right to expand the People’s Board to cover the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven area.
Karol’s Inside View
A personal view on health education and general practice from People’s Board member, Karol Wyszynski. With ever-growing research, rivers of data and information are flooding us. News about ourselves and our communities; healthy lifestyles, latest treatments, challenges, diseases etc. Many find out about it from the radio, TV or social media. But how do we react to this news- how do we take up that data and form practical information that will benefit us, our community and NHS? More importantly, how can this news reach a wider population? Health is a great… Read More
Reflections from the WY&H Health and Care Partnership Involvement Panel Workshop 17/4/18
I attended a packed meeting at St George’s Centre, Leeds as a member and co-vice Chair of Bradford’s People’s Board. What follows is a short summary and some reflections on the session. Sam Samociuk. Speakers on the agenda from WY&HP, NHSE, Trust Governors, CCG Lay members, Leeds Council and National Voices. A general theme emerged of the tensions between the focus on outcomes and the ‘how’ of delivery. So, It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it – that’s what get results! Was then later contradicted by we… Read More
How to reflect the voice of young people – Working with Bradford young carers #CityofYouth
The People’s Board (PB) and Young Carers (YCs) Initiative – Lead by Sam Samociuk (author of this blog post), Huma Malik and Adam Deacon. The PB had discussions on how best to reflect the voice of young people of Bradford, as we are to be the youngest city in Europe. We considered membership of the PB, but this was fraught with difficulties, regarding timings of meetings, ages of participants and relevance of content of meetings. It was decided that a small sub-group of the PB, (Huma, Sam and Adam) would task themselves… Read More
Mental Wellbeing Strategy – 63 pages, sleepless nights and google translate!
Written by Mohammed Mahboob, People’s Board member In January 2017, “The Mental Wellbeing in Bradford District and Craven: A Strategy 2016 – 2021” was launched. The Strategy formally sets out the vision and strategic priorities for the people of Bradford district and Craven from 2016 to 2021. The strategy covers a wide range of areas including priority groups and services that will be delivered including children and young people, perinatal care, older people, and carers. The key strategies are as follows: • our wellbeing: building resilience, promoting mental wellbeing and delivering early… Read More
