In April 2022 we hosted a number of focus groups with parents and carers across North Yorkshire to help shape the future of the local Children and Young People's Autism Assessment Service. You can read the report from these sessions, here. 

Two Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) consultations were being run by North Yorkshire County Council, which the CCG helped promote.

In the first, people were invited to have a say on proposed changes to the residential offer at Welburn Hall School to accommodate children and young people with communication and interaction needs and/or learning disability - more information, here.

In the second, people were invited to give their views on the SEND Local Area Strategy, a joint strategy between the council and the Clinical Commissioning Groups that serve North Yorkshire - there's more details, here.

North Yorkshire County Council is planning to enter into a formal partnership agreement with NHS North Yorkshire CCG to jointly commission a Targeted and School Based Emotional Wellbeing Service in North Yorkshire. This is referred to as a ‘Section 75 Partnership Agreement’. As part of the groundwork, the council invited people to fill in a survey (now closed).

In North Yorkshire, stroke care has been reorganised across all localities with Hyper Acute Stroke Units (HASUs) located at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, York Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary and Hull Royal Infirmary with an expectation that this will deliver high quality stroke care, in line with national clinical best practice, for all our patients.

In the Scarborough area the move to take patients directly to a HASU was instigated in May 2020, initially as a result of staffing issues at Scarborough Hospital. This model continues to operate at the current time supported by North Yorkshire County Council's Scrutiny of Health Committee in June 2021. You can view the full stroke services engagement report, here. 

Events

On 17 November 2021 NHS North Yorkshire CCG along with NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG and Heathwatch North Yorkshire hosted an engagement event to provide information on the patient journey from the onset of stroke symptoms through to rehabilitation.

Presentation recordings

• NHS North Yorkshire CCG (Bridget Read)
• Yorkshire Ambulance Service (Derek Hatley)
• NHS North Yorkshire CCG and Primary Care (Dr Peter Billingsley)
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (Dr Rayessa Rayessa)
• York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Michael Keeling)
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (Natalie Seals)
• Stroke Association (Samantha Jones)

Supporting information from the event can be found below: 

• Presentation 
• Stroke pathway video 
• Final notes from East Coast stroke meeting (including questions and answers)

In North Yorkshire, stroke care has been reorganised across all localities with Hyper Acute Stroke Units (HASUs) located at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, York Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary and Hull Royal Infirmary with an expectation that this will deliver high quality stroke care, in line with national clinical best practice, for all our patients.

In April 2019 stroke care for Harrogate patients was reconfigured to ensure access to high quality stroke care at the HASUs in either York or Leeds depending on patient location. You can view the full stroke services engagement report, here. 

On 11 November 2021 NHS North Yorkshire CCG along with Heathwatch North Yorkshire hosted an engagement event to provide information on the patient journey from the onset of stroke symptoms through to rehabilitation.

Presentation recordings

• NHS North Yorkshire CCG and Primary Care (Dr Bruce Willoughby)
• Yorkshire Ambulance Service (Matt Spencer)
• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (Pam Bagot)
• York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Michael Keeling)
• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (Pam Bagot)
• Patient story
• Stroke Association (Samantha Jones)

Supporting information from the event can be found below: 

• Presentation 
• Stroke pathway video
• Final notes from Harrogate stroke meeting

There are currently two Acute Service Transformation Programmes taking place within Humber, Coast and Vale: Humber Acute Services Programme and East Coast Transformation Programme.

Both programmes are looking at how to provide the best health care for its population whilst making the best use of the resources available (money, staff and buildings).

Both programmes are exploring how maternity and neonatal care could be provided in the future ensuring that they meet the needs of people using them.

To support and inform the development and refinement of a range of potentially clinically viable models (options), in July 2021 the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership undertook a programme of engagement across the area to gather the views of birthing people, birthing partners and support people to understand what is important to them when choosing where to give birth, what their main concerns are around the different birthing options (home births, midwife-led births and hospital births) and what could be put in place to alleviate those concerns.

The feedback gathered will also support the Humber, Coast and Vale Local Maternity System (LMS) as it works to improve maternity care across our region.

The health and care partnership also wanted to understand what parents perceive to be important to them, should their baby(ies) require neonatal care when first born, or what was important to them if they have lived experience of neonatal care.

As part of the engagement, a number of targeted focus groups took place and patients had the opportunity to complete a questionnaire.

In July 2021, the CCG invited people to share their experiences of paediatric services at Scarborough Hospital in order to "gather meaningful and informed feedback from
service users and carers with experience of accessing the service".

North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC), Parent Carer Voice and Local Clinical Commissioning Groups are developing a Local Area SEND strategy and in July 2021 asked for views from a wide range of stakeholders.

In June/July 2021, NHS North Yorkshire CCG sought feedback from patients on their experiences accessing GP practice services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We received 127 responses to the survey.

The results showed:

• 48 % of appointments were face-to-face; 52% via telephone (no video consultations)
• 81% of appointments were with a GP (12% with a practice nurse)
• 82% of respondents thought their appointment was suitable for their clinical need
• 79% would rate their appointment and how it took place as good or very good (62% said very good); 9% bad or very bad and about 13% average
• While some people think face-to-face is a must, there is strong support for telephone appointments and the ease and speed which often come with them
• Some of the concerns raised were seeing a clinician other than a doctor, not always being able to see the same doctor and the potential lack of privacy around telephone consultations

You can read the full results of the survey here.

NHS North Yorkshire CCG's AGM took place on 7 July, virtually over Zoom.

Thank you to everyone who took the trouble to attend and post questions.

You can view the slides from the AGM, here.

A recording of the Annual General Meeting is available, here.

See also

AGM questions and answers

Stroke services: AGM questions and responses

In April 2021, the NHS in York and North Yorkshire asked for patient feedback to help reshape adult autism and ADHD services, through focus groups and an online survey.

We would like to share some of the feedback from the focus groups, below (the presentation to the focus groups is here):-

• Tuesday 27 April
• Wednesday 28 April
• Wednesday 5 May

Engagement reports

Adult Autism and ADHD engagement summary document - May 2021

Further information will be posted here, soon.