“Hello my name is… Sam Keighley. In January I was privileged to take on the role of Chief Executive of the VCS Alliance and the VCSE Health System Lead for the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership. In my role as VCSE health system lead.
I am going to try and upload a video blog every few months, but now that I’ve made it to the end of my tenth week, it feels like the ideal time to reflect on what’s been happening, what I’ve been learning and what’s coming next
We will try and provide a video transcript with each video blog for download, but this may not always be possible.”
March 2023 Blog Entry
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“…So, what’s my role and how can I help you…
In my VCSE system lead role my focus will be to further develop the connections and collaboration across our VCSE sector and between our sector and our wider health and care partners. We all have a shared ambition to ‘Act as One’ to help people stay ‘happy, healthy at home’, and we’re all committed to getting behind the efforts to tackle health and wider inequalities.“
April/ May 2023 Blog Entry
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“Morning, everyone.
Sorry I can’t be there in person this morning, but one of my other roles is as the joint responsible officer with Duncan Cooper from the Inequalities Alliance for Community Partnerships, and I’ve got to be a meeting about that this morning
But I think most of you know now that I’m trying to be as transparent and open about the things that I’m involved in, on behalf of the sector and advocating for the sector
So I hope this little video is a good alternative to me being there in person…”
