Building on the success of our YHealth for Growth campaign that seeks to tackle health inequalities by promoting the role of health in driving economic and inclusive growth in our region , we continue to evolve and further embed our health inequalities strategy into everything we do as an organisation to maximise our impact . To support this ambition our monthly Population Health Management ( PHM ) Roundtable convenes Yorkshire and Humber PHM Integrated Care Board leads , the West Yorkshire Combined Authority , NHS England and our West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Innovation Hubs to drive forward the health inequalities agenda . We sit on the Leeds Anchors Network and have been involved in the scoping of the new Yorkshire Vitality Index , driven by Yorkshire Universities which will provide an assessment of levelling up efforts across the region .
Nationally , we work with the NHS England health inequalities team . This relationship was strengthened through the production of the Tackling Healthcare Inequalities in access , experience and outcomes guide on behalf of the Health Foundation , co-written with an expert reference group . NHS systems and staff now have a resource with actionable insights and case studies designed to support local health inequalities intervention .
We were pleased to work with the Care Quality Commission ( CQC ) who secured funding from the Department of Business , Energy and Industrial Strategy ’ s regulators pioneer fund , to develop a report demonstrating how GP practices can showcase innovation to address local health inequalities as part of regulatory assessments . The CQC will use the learning to continually develop its single assessment framework and associated methods and processes training of inspection teams , ways of working and quality assurance processes . Through the CQC ’ s revised ways of working , it is intended that innovative ways of tackling inequalities which are being undertaken by primary care will be better encouraged , recognised , championed and shared .
We help to deliver the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme ( InHIP ) which is led by the Health Innovation Network in collaboration with the Accelerated Access Collaborative ( AAC ). This programme focuses on scaling medical technologies to underserved populations as described in the Core20PLUS5 initiative in partnership with Integrated Care Systems ( ICSs ). This work has generated around £ 300k of funding for our region , with each ICS being supported to apply for £ 100k . We now have three projects underway to improve cardiovascular and respiratory access , experience and outcomes .
In West Yorkshire , the InHIP project is targeting underserved patients to increase treatment rates and improve outcomes for Core20PLUS communities in Leeds at increased risk of cardiovascular disease . Humber and North Yorkshire is focusing its project on improving respiratory outcomes through the identification of uncontrolled severe asthma patients to address inequalities in access to Asthma Biologics . And in South Yorkshire , the project is targeting the population of Barnsley through Eclipse PROTECT ( 2 ) stratification software to ensure people with cardiovascular disease are reviewed and their treatment optimised .
Importantly , all InHIP projects feature strong patient and public involvement from among the 20 % of our most deprived populations . We are closely supporting the three ICSs ’ clinical delivery teams and we look
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