Rob Webster
Rob Webster, CBE is CEO Lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership. He is also the CEO for South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust and was named CEO of the Year by the HSJ.
CommentPandemic has reinforced the need to ‘get a move on’ in tackling racial inequality
Rob Webster and Fatima Khan-Shah shed light on the ambition of further creating an equitable, fair and safe environment that promotes ethnically diverse talent.
CommentIntegration cannot be delivered if ‘NHS leaders are always looking up’
Places and systems must be the focus if local organisations are to successfully work together in a new spirit of collaboration rather than competition, write Chris Ham and Rob Webster
CommentICSs must be 'the servant of place'
What has emerged in West Yorkshire and Harrogate, built on over four years of working together, is a model that tackles problems faced by people in the communities by seeing the local places as the building blocks for action. By Rob Webster and Tim Swift
CommentHealth inequalities and covid-19 - our greatest challenge
How the NHS, local government and others in West Yorkshire are trying to mitigate the greater threat from covid-19 to more deprived and excluded groups.
CommentThe NHS 'inflexible' on covid? — 'nothing could be further from the truth'
Rob Webster on deliverables offered by integrated care systems during this covid-19 crisis and the phenomenal progress in safety through joint care
HSJ InteractivePartnership defined by purpose and shared values will make a difference
Rob Webster on how West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership has set out common points of agreement on its purpose, principles and approach and is working towards providing optimum healthcare to its people
CommentThe PM has shown faith - we now need bold policies for change
Extra funding for the NHS has been secured despite Treasury scepticism that the health service can change. If there’s a deal for social care and local government, backed by a more coherent policy landscape, we can prove them wrong, says Rob Webster
CommentVoluntary, community and social enterprise organisations can help co-design systems
Alex Fox, Glen Garrod and Rob Webster on how voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations are at the heart of developing more integrated systems
CommentLook in the staff survey mirror and ask: am I the bully?
The positivity so evident in the NHS and its staff should be celebrated - and the stain of bullying eradicated, writes Rob Webster
CommentTalk on tariff must balance national and local priorities
‘Enhanced tariff’ is a bold step in the right direction
CommentUrgent care: we need a shared sense of scale
Tackling pressures bringing together disparate perspectives
CommentNational tariff must balance risk between national and local commissioners
Harder to work together
CommentDon't fuel fear, build on existing good practice for open NHS culture
The next Francis report should be required reading
CommentLet's not kid ourselves, the NHS has to shape its own future
The future will test our resilience