Through working collaboratively with a wide set of system partners, the collaborative aims to reduce the gap in life expectancy between people with mental health conditions, learning disabilities and/or autism and the rest of the population. Each provider involved in the collaborative has an active role to play in achieving this ambition.
The West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism (WY MHLDA) Collaborative’s programme work plan groups activity into four categories:
- Specialised mental health services that the WY MHLDA Collaborative is accountable for delivering.
- West Yorkshire workstreams (listed below), that are determined by the places and report into the system-wide partnership board, with system oversight.
- Nationally and system-set performance objectives, including those set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the West Yorkshire Joint Forward Plan, such as reducing out of area placements, access to talking therapies, and dementia diagnosis rates among others.
- Local, Place-based transformation priorities, which are determined and led at Place – the collaborative does not have an active role in these but partner trusts do within their place leadership role.
Workstreams
1. Coordinating delegated specialised services (lead) provider collaboratives
- Adult secure services
- Adult eating disorders
- Tier four Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMH)
- Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Assessment & treatment units for people with a learning disability
2. Partnership board system-wide workstreams include:
- Learning disabilities
- Children and young people's mental health
- Adult mental health pathways
- Community mental health transformation
- Neurodiversity
- Older people's mental health
- Complex rehabilitation
- Perinatal mental health
- Mental health staff wellbeing hub
- Workforce
- Data and intelligence
- Wider determinants and inequalities
- Communications and engagement
One challenge the collaborative faces is refining the focus of what they can deliver via the West Yorkshire programme of work. The ongoing review of the integrated care board operating model, alongside NHS England regional changes, highlighted the capacity challenge associated with what's being led at West Yorkshire-level vs Place level. In response to this the collaborative leadership team is reviewing where it should focus resource and capacity to have the greatest impact.