Transformation Delivery Collaborative

The Transformation Delivery Collaborative (TDC) sees services from across Wakefield District come together to address short and long-term challenges facing the health and care system.

Representatives from the NHS, general practice, adult social care, children’s services and mental health are among those who are part of the TDC, which meets on a regular basis.

By doing so, they can understand and share challenges, pool knowledge and expertise and plan and deliver improvements to services collectively.

Children’s Alliance

The Children’s Alliance was established in June 2021. It is a population alliance that focuses on the experience of children and young people across their lives.

Members of the Children’s Alliance commission or provide services to children, young people and families and, by working together can agree how services are connected and wrapped around children and young people to provide the right help at the right time.

The work of the Children’s Alliance aims to support children and young people as early as possible when need arises and works on the best start in life offer, the emotional and mental wellbeing pathway and to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The health offer available in the District’s Family Hubs is growing – families can now access everything from paediatric clinics, stay and play, SEND support, emotional wellbeing and healthy eating groups. The Wakefield health and wellbeing offer is also well connected to education so that children can access support where they go to nursery and school.

Housing and Health

The programme is working with housing providers across Wakefield District. Housing is the foundation of many people’s health and, without it, much of the other support in place does not work.

The programme supports the prevention agenda, including falls prevention, and the homeless population whilst there is a host of independent living schemes.

The programme also works with Yorkshire Ambulance Service with the Carelink responder service and there are housing co-ordinators in Fieldhead and Pinderfields Hospitals who enable people to go home to a safe and supported environment.

Mental Health Alliance

The Wakefield Mental Health Alliance Partnership is a partnership of mental health providers and commissioners in Wakefield District.

The Alliance was formed in June 2018. The Mental Health Alliance has oversight of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for mental health and exists to improve mental health services for the population of Wakefield District.

Planned Care Transformation Programme

The Wakefield and North Kirklees Planned Care Alliance Forum is a whole Mid Yorkshire system group working in partnership to take ownership and drive the development of the Planned Care Redesign Programme, including both recovery and transformational change in the delivery of healthcare to deliver the best possible outcomes for people.

The Planned Care Redesign Programme will support collaborative, integrated and personalised care through its five-point strategy:

• Unified vision
• Enhanced interface
• Pathway innovation
• Creative tools
• Personalised care

The Alliance brings together partners and leads in local healthcare to supply oversight on the delivery of this aim for the population, with recognition of the need to continue to work in collaboration to support and transform GP, local hospital, and community services.

Unplanned Care Transformation Programme

The Unplanned Care Alliance is a partnership of Urgent and Emergency Care providers and commissioners across the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust footprint including the Districts of Wakefield and North Kirklees.

The Alliance was formed in April 2024 and oversees Unplanned Care Transformation programmes including:

• Improving Accident and Emergency (A&E) waiting times to 78 per cent of patients being seen within four hours by March 2025 (national ambition)
• Improving category two ambulance response times to an average of 30 minutes across 2024/25 (national ambition)
• Redesign of urgent and emergency care in Wakefield District including services provided at the King Street Walk In centre
• Pathway review and transformation to facilitate smoother access to, and between, Urgent and Emergency Care services across the Districts.

Reducing Healthcare Inequalities

Healthcare inequalities are the unfair and avoidable differences in healthcare outcomes, experiences of care and access to services.

The Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Community of Practice shares good practice from across the district and stimulates opportunities for collaboration among partners.

One of the schemes funded locally is Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust’s Maternity Befrienders, who are trained support workers offering time to women new to the country to help them to navigate local maternity services.

They also run groups to provide antenatal education and prevent isolation – offering a supportive network alongside vital support and advice.

The befrienders were recently recognised with the Maternity Stream of Sanctuary award for their excellent work in support of migrant women in the perinatal period.

People Alliance

Workers are being brought together across professional and organisational boundaries to deliver seamless health and social care services in Wakefield District.

Wakefield District Health & Care Partnership’s People Alliance and its ‘People Plan’ includes details of health and wellbeing support for staff, new roles and new ways of working and how the workforce is being grown and developed.

Hyperlocal recruitment fairs are reaching as many people in the community as possible and work in schools is helping students think about a career in the local health and social care system.

Personalised Care Programme

Wakefield District’s Stronger Together group ensures lived experience is part of strategic decision-making so that the people who use services are instrumental in the way services are delivered, planned and transformed.

Peer Leaders have presented at board meetings and been on recruitment panels and have helped deliver the Healthy Heart hubs, for which Wakefield was one of the nationwide pilot sites.