Community Engagement
Our Community Engagement Team
Our Community Engagement Team work with communities across Yorkshire. We provide training on life-saving skills, help people understand how and when to use our services and engage with communities to understand how we can improve our services and contribute to improving people’s health and reducing health inequalities.
We also engage with communities to encourage them to come and work for YAS and provide support and training to help people find work and improve their employment prospects.
Our Community Engagement plan, covering 2024 to 2026, sets out how the Trust will engage with our communities to support the Trust to achieve its vision to be trusted as the best urgent and emergency care provider with the best people and partnerships, delivering the best outcomes for patients.
Our previous Community Engagement Strategy, 2021 to 2024, is also available.
Our strategy includes our commitments to engage with communities to contribute to saving lives, building relationships and addressing health inequalities.
Summary video of activities during 2024/25
You can find out about our recent community engagement activity in our quarterly updates below.
- October 2024 - December 2024
- July 2024 - September 2024
- April 2024 - June 2024
- January 2024 - March 2024
- October 2023 - December 2023
- July 2023 - September 2023
- April 2023 - June 2023
- January 2023 - March 2023
- October 2022 - December 2022
- July 2022 - September 2022
- April 2022 - June 2022
- January 2022 – March 2022
Restart a Heart Day was developed in 2013 by the European Resuscitation Council to encourage others to teach members of the public how to help restart the heart of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest.
The following year, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust offered all secondary schools in Yorkshire the opportunity to receive free CPR training for pupils on Restart a Heart Day (on or around 16 October).
In 2014 we visited 49 schools and taught CPR to 11,500 youngsters – with the help of hundreds of volunteers, mostly off-duty staff and community first responders. The event has continued to go from strength to strength; in the last seven years on Restart a Heart Day we have taught life-saving skills to an incredible 151,000 youngsters at 82% of Yorkshire’s secondary schools.
Find out more on the Restart a Heart website or contact us.
For further information about our Community Engagement Programme please email yas.communityengagement@nhs.net
