5.4m people
In our region :
150,173
employed in
NHS hospitals and community health people-focused assets we have in our region to help us tackle the challenges we face . There are more highlighted in our most recent YHealth for Growth white paper .
Creating the conditions for place-based leadership
Leaders and organisations across Yorkshire and the Humber are already embracing the opportunity to collaborate and tackle the region ’ s long-standing challenges , but what else could be done with more support from national government ? What conditions and polices would better support this place-based action by local leadership ?
3 combined authorities
58 Transforming Lives Through Innovation
6 teaching hospitals
12 higher education institutions
2 investment zones
These questions are topics we have been working to address with NHS Confederation and Yorkshire Universities through our recently published YHealth for Growth white paper ‘ Empowering local places for health and prosperity : new perspectives from Yorkshire and the Humber ’. Building upon our inaugural YHealth for Growth report published in 2020 , our new collaborative white paper responds to the urgent need for action to narrow the health and economic gap across the region and puts forward 10 recommendations for national and regional leaders and for business . The recommendations focus on a twinned purpose : the need to work collaboratively and build upon existing activity to develop a strong regional economy , create healthy work environments , and improve health outcomes across the region ; and secondly , the need to create the conditions nationally which ensure this locally-led work can develop with the greatest possible impact . Together , delivering against these recommendations has the potential to begin to arrest the current trends in economic inactivity .