Community Partnerships
What are Community Partnerships?
Community Partnerships are networks of statutory, voluntary and community organisations that work together to address inequalities and improve outcomes for their local populations.
We have thirteen Community Partnerships within Bradford District and Craven, based on Primary Care Network (PCN) population footprints of between 30,000 and 50,000 residents. The overarching ethos is to collaborate with communities at a local and hyper-local level – we refer to this as ‘inverting the power to act’. We believe that by empowering the diverse communities we serve, by joining them up with the NHS, makes it easier to live healthier, happier lives.
The thirteen Community Partnerships each have local priorities based on their own population health needs and work closely with primary care, local authorities, local people and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector to identify and address inequalities in health and care for their local populations.
Over 250 projects are currently being delivered in 2024/25 across six localities (detailed below) covering a diverse range of needs and integrating a range of health and care services.
Who are the Community Partnerships?
The thirteen Community Partnerships are grouped into six localities across Bradford District and Craven as follows:
Bradford East
Five Lane Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Supporting healthy lifestyles and self-care
- Improving long-term conditions and cancer screening
- Supporting mental wellness
- Supporting maternity and contraception
Central 5 Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Access to care and cancer screening
- Supporting mental health
- Reducing childhood obesity
Bradford West
Together for Health Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Reducing infant mortality
- Improving mental health
- Raising health awareness, education and self-advocacy
Horton and City Health Collaboration Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Reducing premature mortality; Including through cancer screening
- Improving mental health
- Reducing childhood obesity
- Reducing Infant mortality; including through vaccination funding
Quadrant Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Supporting individuals with dementia diagnosis, long-term conditions and mental health
- Supporting parents and carers of children with SEND
- Increasing awareness and uptake of vaccinations and immunisations in pregnancy and childhood
- Increasing access to exercise, and health and wellbeing advice
Bradford South
WOW (Working on Wellbeing) Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Reducing loneliness and isolation
- Supporting mental health and wellbeing
- Reducing obesity
- Conducting health checks
BD4+ Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Supporting better births and uptake of childhood vaccinations
- Supporting young people’s mental health and preventing suicide across the population
- Prevention and management of respiratory conditions in the community
- Delivering health checks in the community (CVD/cancer screening)
Shipley
WISHH (Windhill, Idle & Saltaire Happy and Healthy) Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Supporting resilience and recovery within our communities
- Prevention and management of CVD and respiratory conditions
Bingley Bubble Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Improving and supporting mental wellness
- Improving and supporting healthy lifestyles with a particular focus on: children and young people, elders, the frail or housebound and carers
Affinity Care Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Reducing isolation and loneliness
- Improving and supporting mental wellness
- Promoting and supporting healthy lifestyles
- Facilitating access to support and services, focusing on those experiencing the greatest barriers
Keighley
Keighley and Worth Valley Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Preventing isolation and loneliness and promoting healthy relationships
- Supporting access to services both physically and digitally
- Improving opportunities and support to children from birth to adulthood
Wharfedale and Silsden Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Supporting disadvantaged families with children under the age of 18 years
- Providing alcohol and recovery services
- Improving children’s mental health and wellbeing
- Providing weight management and exercise opportunities
Craven
Craven Communities Together Community Partnership
Local priorities:
- Improving access to services and opportunities
- Reducing isolation and loneliness
- Sharing information better
- Reducing impact of cost-of-living crisis
- Improving community spaces and infrastructure
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We are here to mobilise everyone working within communities to improve health and care and create a movement of change within Bradford District and Craven. As part of this, we host an informal bi-monthly meeting held on MS Teams open to members of the public, VCSE and health care sector to attend and share updates.
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