Yorkshire’s biggest NHS revamp in a decade

Mar 9 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

PLANS to give Yorkshire’s NHS a 21st-century facelift have been unveiled.

A new document called Delivering Healthy Ambitions has been launched to outline how health care in Yorkshire and the Humber is to meet the challenges of the next 10 years.

The report – part of a national NHS review – focuses on issues including obesity, stroke care and helping people die at home instead of in hospital.

Chris Welsh, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber medical director, said: “This is a very exciting time for the NHS in Yorkshire and the Humber.

“We have a clear vision from our clinicians of the changes we need to make to have an NHS fit for the future. This document provides a framework for making the clinicians’ recommendations a reality.

“We know there is much more to do, but we want to make progress in the next 12 months on some very specific areas – on improving stroke care, improving maternity and neonatal care, beginning the long journey to halt the rise of obesity in Yorkshire and the Humber.

“We are not just ambitious for the health of our population, we intend to realise those ambitions.”