Across the North Yorkshire and York area, work to support the independent care sector in preventing and managing outbreaks of Covid-19 has helped consolidate and expedite collaboration between Health & Social Care colleagues to develop the offer of support to you, the people you support and staff.

As a result of learning from work during the pandemic and subsequent pilot of integrating the teams, Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership (HNYHCP), previously known as the Vale of York and North Yorkshire CCGs) & North Yorkshire Council (NYC) are now working together to deliver an integrated approach to quality assurance and quality improvement. 

The team is formed of the NYC Quality & Service Continuity Team and York Place Quality Nursing Team who are now known as the 'Quality Team' and work as an integrated service led by the Principal Nurse/ Head of Quality Improvement for NYC/ York Place Health and Care Partnership and the Head of Quality and Service Continuity at NYC. 

The Quality Team has Quality Nurses, Project Assistants (Quality Improvement), Quality Improvement Officers, Quality Assurance Officers and Quality Support Officers working together, with a risk-based approach, to provide support and advice to providers across York & North Yorkshire (including Craven). By working as a single service, the team ensure that the most appropriate support is provided by the most appropriate staff for the job.

Further information on our offer to the independent care sector, and how we can support your service can be found through this link or by contacting hnyicb-voy.yorkplacequalitynursingteam@nhs.net.

We have a launched a provider support booklet designed for all care providers across North Yorkshire and York to help you navigate offer of local support available to your service, and  in identifying and working with key local partners to support your team and those in your care.