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Introduction
Covid-19 has highlighted health inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities and colleagues. The pandemic has also drawn attention to the impact of systemic racism on people’s lives.
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP) recognised the opportunity to address these issues, establishing a commission independently chaired by Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, a leading figure in national health and care policy. You can read more about Professor Dame Donna Kinnair on page 4.
The review has been co-produced by leaders from the NHS, local government and the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS); informed by the voices of those with lived experience.
This session presents a one off opportunity to hear direct from review panel members and to find out more about the report recommendations, action plan and importantly the next steps for us all.
It will be held digitally via Microsoft Teams. If you haven’t used Microsoft Teams before, this guidance explains how to join. All attendees are asked to please keep their microphones on mute whilst others are speaking.
To join, please book your place on Eventbrite here by Wednesday 14 October 2020.
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Today’s agenda
10.00am – 10.05am Hello and welcome. The importance of getting involved, my personal reflections as Chair and hopes for the future following the review Professor Dame Donna Kinnair (see Dame Donna’s biography on page 4)
10.05am – 10.10am Why it’s good to commission an independent review Cllr Tim Swift (see Cllr Swift’s biography on page 4)
10.10am – 10.15am Why carry out an independent BAME review now? What makes this different to other reviews? Rob Webster (see Rob’s biography on page 5)
10.15am – 10.25am The Review Report, recommendations, insight and intelligence, and the review process Sarah Smith (see Sarah’s biography on page 6) and Fatima Khan-Shah (see Fatima’s biography on page 6)
10.25am – 10.35am The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in the review and how they can support the recommendations Alison Lowe (see Alison’s biography on page 7)
10.35am – 10.45am How the review recommendations build on existing work and how the Health Inequalities Network plan to take this work forward Dr Sohail Abbas (see Sohail’s biography on page 8)
10.45am – 10.55am The next steps, monitoring and evaluation progress Robin Tuddenham (see Robin’s biography on page 8)
10.55am – 11.25am Questions
11.25-11.30am Close - Rob Webster
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Event hosts
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, DBE, RGN, HV, LLB, MA, CMI is the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing and Independent Chair of the WY&H HCP BAME review sessions.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the voice of nursing across the UK. The RCN promotes patient and nursing interests on a wide range of issues by working closely with the Government, the UK parliaments and other national and European political institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.
Working with the RCN Council and the Executive Team Donna is responsible for delivering the RCN's strategic and operational plans.
Donna joined the RCN as Head of Nursing in 2015, she was then promoted and joined the RCN Executive Team to Director of Nursing, Policy and Practice in 2016, where her key role is to work with UK-wide RCN staff to drive and implement the future RCN professional nursing, policy and practice strategy.
Prior to joining the RCN Donna held various roles including Clinical Director of Emergency Medicine; Executive Director of Nursing and Director of Commissioning.
Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010 and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry.
Cllr Tim Swift
Tim Swift has been a councillor in Calderdale for 16 years, but also has previous local government experience in Leicestershire. He became leader of the Labour group in 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Council in 2010, before taking over as Leader in May 2012 to July 2014 and from May 2015 to date.
Tim represents Calderdale Council on the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (where he is vice-chair). He is also actively involved in the Local Government Association.
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He currently chairs the Leeds City Region Place Panel and the West and North Yorkshire Business Rates Pool and the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Board.
Tim started his working life in research engineering in the private sector. He then spent more than twenty years in non-profit roles, becoming the Chief Executive of Age Concern Calderdale, and later Age Concern Calderdale and Kirklees. He has a strong interest in community organisations and regeneration, and was previously a director of both West Central Halifax Partnership and Action Halifax SRB schemes, as well as being one of the initial Trustees of the Halifax Opportunities Trust.
Guest speakers
Rob Webster
Rob joined South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive in May 2016 and is responsible for leading the organisation and its 4200 staff. Rob is also Lead Chief Executive for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (also known as an integrated care system).
This sees him bringing together West Yorkshire and Harrogate health and care leaders, organisations and communities to develop ambitious plans for improved health, care and finances for 2.7 million people. Rob is an active member of the NHS Assembly and leads a number of national programmes.
Rob has worked in healthcare since 1990, taking on national leadership roles in the Department of Health on policy, transformation and delivery. He has been a director for both the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit in the Cabinet Office and a national public/private partnership. He has been a successful Chief Executive in the NHS for over a decade, running both commissioning organisations and providers of NHS services. He has chaired formal cancer, primary care, community trust and learning disability networks. He was Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation between 2014 and 2016.
Rob is defined by a values based approach to leadership. He is a visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University and was proud to be made a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2014. In May 2016, Rob became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. You can follow Rob on Twitter @NHS_RobW
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Sarah Smith
Sarah is the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Public Health Consultant for Improving Population Health. She is passionate about collaborating and connecting to improve population health.
She has a keen interest in healthcare public health, specifically embedding approaches to reducing health inequalities and exploring the contributions we can make to improve the determinants of health.
Sarah held previous roles as a Public Health Registrar within NHS England national teams, Public Health England regional teams and local authorities. Prior to public health training, Sarah qualified with a BSc Hons in Biomedical Science and completed the NHS Graduate Management Scheme and a MSc in Health and Public Leadership; before working as a commissioning manager in the NHS.
Fatima Khan-Shah
Fatima is known regionally and nationally for actively championing patient involvement; the recognition of carer support and challenging inequalities in Health and Care.
She currently works as a system leader within the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and leads the Programme for Unpaid Carers which recently won a national award. She also leads the Partnership’s Personalised Care Programme. Fatima works nationally with NHS England and Health Education England and is a member of the NHS Assembly and King’s Fund General Council.
Fatima has been nationally recognised for her work in the voluntary and community sector developing the community interest company Investors in Carers which was shortlisted for a Heath Services Journal Award and as Chair of Healthwatch Kirklees which was nationally recognised by Healthwatch England for its work.
Her experience also includes working within the NHS as a Lay Member for Patient and Public Involvement and within the local authority as a scrutiny co-optee with responsibility for scrutinising the decisions and policies that are being made by the Council and key partners including local health service providers and commissioners.
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Alison Lowe
Alison has worked with voluntary organisations for nearly 30 years. Right now she works as the Chief Executive of Touchstone, a Mental Health Charity in Leeds and wider West Yorkshire.
Touchstone work with and for people that are affected by mental health problems and they specialise in working with people from different cultural backgrounds. Touchstone have received multiple awards for their work in inclusion and diversity, including the number 1 spot in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 UK Top 50 Most Inclusive Employers Award and the 2018 National Diversity Award for Most Diverse Company.
They are a Stonewall Top 100 LGBT-Friendly Employer for the 8th year running and are again a 3 Star Extraordinary Sunday Times Best Company to work for in 2020, being placed in the top 10 for the last four years. Additionally, Touchstone were judged to be Investors in People Platinum at their latest assessment - only the third organisation in Yorkshire to gain this accolade and one of six charities nationally.
Before Alison started working with Touchstone she was a senior manager with Foundation Housing, a charity that supports people that have just come out of prison or are on bail to find housing.
Alison has been involved in local government for 29 years and was a councillor with the Labour Party. She was also the Chair of the Police and Crime Panel, the body that scrutinises the performance of the Police and Crime Commissioner and represents the interests of all the 2.2 million people across West Yorkshire. Alison was the Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds in 2003-4 and was made an Honorary Alderman of the city in 2020.
She is chair of Leeds Survivor-led Crisis Service and is a trustee at several charities including Wooden Spoon which raises money for disadvantaged children.
Over the years, Alison has been a well-known campaigner on equal rights and chaired the Leeds Domestic Violence Forum that raises awareness of domestic violence against women and children by known men for over 25 years.
Alison holds an MA in Medieval Studies from Leeds University and a BA in History. She was invited to become a Windsor Castle Leadership Fellow in 2020. She has two grown up children, Adam and Rosy and a grandchild called Mae.
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Dr Sohail Abbas
Sohail is the deputy clinical chair and strategic clinical director of population health and wellbeing for Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Sohail has been working in the NHS since 2003. He has previously worked as the clinical director of community services in Salford Royal Foundation Trust and clinical chair of Bradford City CCG.
He is also a GP partner in Bradford city and a GP with special interest in diabetes. As the Chair of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership’s Health Inequalities Network, Sohail is passionate about system working and harnessing the strength of communities in order to reduce the health inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of people living in our region.
Robin Tuddenham
Robin has been Chief Executive at Calderdale Council, in West Yorkshire, since June 2017. He has also recently become the Accountable Officer for NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
Robin is responsible for leading both the council and CCG workforce, and supporting system leadership across the area with public, private and voluntary sector leaders in support of Calderdale Vision 2024.
Robin is the lead Chief Executive for Workforce Development and Cohesion, Resilience and Migration Issues for Yorkshire and Humber. He is co-chair of West Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum, and a member of West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Executive Group (also known as an integrated care system), where he is also co-chair of the Improving Population Health Programme.
Robin has supported local government across the country as a peer on a range of reviews since 2005, most recently for Birmingham City, Dudley MBC and Devon County Council. He has recently been elected SOLACE spokesperson for economic prosperity, having been deputy lead for health and social care for the last two years. Robin was previously Director of Communities and Business Change for Calderdale, leading the redevelopment of the multi-award winning restoration and redevelopment of the Piece Hall and new central library in Halifax.
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Review Panel Members
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, Chief Executive and General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing (Independent Chair) Dr Sohail Abbas, GP and Deputy Clinical Chair at NHS Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Chair of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP) Health Inequalities Network Brendan Brown, Chief Executive, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the WY&H HCP Workforce Programme Marie Burnham, Independent Lay Chair of the WY&H HCP Joint Committee of CCGs Yvonne Coghill, Deputy President, Royal College of Nursing Hannah Davies, Chief Executive, Healthwatch Leeds Stephen Featherstone, Co-opted Member, WY&H HCP Health and Care Partnership Board Fatima Khan-Shah, Programme Director, WY&H HCP Unpaid Carers and Personalised Care programme and member of the WY&H BAME Network Alison Lowe, Chief Executive , Touchstone (voluntary and community sector representative) Dr Habib Naqvi, Interim Director for the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard at NHS England / NHS Improvement Sara Robinson, Centre Leader, St Augustine’s (voluntary and community Sector representative) Wallace Sampson, Chief Executive, Harrogate Borough Council Kim Shutler, Chief Executive, The Cellar Trust (voluntary and community sector representative) Sarah Smith, Consultant in Public Health and Programme Director, WY&H HCP Improving Population Health programme Rachel Spencer-Henshall, Strategic Director Corporate Strategy, Commissioning and Public Health , Kirklees Council Richard Stubbs, Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network Cllr Tim Swift, Leader, Calderdale Council and Chair of the WY&H HCP Health and Care Partnership Board Dr James Thomas, Clinical Chair, NHS Bradford Districts and Craven CCG, Co-Chair of the WY&H HCP Clinical Forum and Joint SRO for the WY&H Improving Population Health Programme Robin Tuddenham, Chief Executive, Calderdale Council and Joint SRO for the WY&H HCP Improving Population Health Programme Rob Webster, Chief Executive, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and CEO Lead for the WY&H HCP Dr Owen Williams, Chief Executive, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the NHS England / NHS Improvement Health Inequalities Expert Advisory Group Professor John Wright, Director, Bradford Institute of Health Research
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Voluntary and Community Sector Sub Group Members
Jo Baker, Programme Director, WY&H HCP Harnessing the Power of Communities Programme Humayun Islam, Chief Executive, BEAP Community Partnership Dipika Kaushal, Chief Executive Officer, Voluntary Action Calderdale Javed Khan, Chief Executive Officer, CNet Bradford Kaneez Khan, Local Coordinator (West Yorkshire), Near Neighbours Corrina Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer, Feel Good Factor Alison Lowe, Chief Executive, Touchstone Heather Nelson, Chief Executive, Black Health Initiative Portia Roberts-Popham, Chief Executive Officer, Locorum Care Services Ltd Santokh Sidhu, (Harrogate voluntary community sector representative) Hilary Thompson, Chair, Third Sector Leaders Kirklees and SRO for the WY&H HCP Harnessing the Power of Communities Programme
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Project Team
Pippa Bird, WY&H HCP Improving Population Health Programme Pam Bhupal, Calderdale Council, Regional Health Partnership Support Karen Coleman, WY&H HCP Communications and Engagement Lead Ian Holmes, Director, WY&H HCP Madi Hoskin, Programme Manager, West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts Heather McKnight, WY&H HCP Programme Support Sayma Mirza, Senior Head of Collaboration, Act as One -System Transformation Programme for Bradford District and Craven Yannish Naik, WY&H HCP Climate Change Lead / Acting Consultant in Public Health Lauren Phillips, Head of Programmes for WY&H HCP.
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