Our organisation brings the NHS and partners together locally to improve population health and care.

We bring together the NHS and partners locally to improve health and care for the population we serve.

Integrated Care Systems (ICS)

The Health and Care Act 2022 sets out plans to now put Integrated Care Systems on a statutory footing, empowering them to better join up health and care services, improve population health and reduce health inequalities.

This will mean that from 1 July 2022, each ICS will be led by an NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB), an organisation with responsibility for NHS functions and budgets, and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), a statutory committee bringing together all system partners to produce a health and care strategy.

Integrated Care Board (ICB)

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB is a statutory organisation accountable for NHS spend and performance for 1.7million people across a region of 1.08 million hectares. The ICB is a core member of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, alongside NHS providers, local councils, health and care providers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.

Find out more about the Executive Team and board members.

Integrated Care Partnership (ICP)

Integrated Care Partnerships will operate as a statutory committee, bringing together the NHS and local authorities as partners to focus more widely on health, public health and social care. ICPs will include representatives from the ICB, local authorities and other partners such as NHS providers, public health, social care, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.

ICPs will be responsible for developing an integrated care strategy to set out how the wider health and wellbeing needs of the local population will be met. Our intention is to extend the responsibilities of the Humber and North Yorkshire ICP to reflect the core aims of the ICS, including improving our population’s health, address inequalities, and contribute to the wider socio-economic challenges we face, such as unemployment and securing inward investment.  

Important ICS features:

• Place-based partnerships between the NHS, local councils and voluntary organisations, residents, people who access services, carers and families – these partnerships will lead design and delivery of integrated services in their local area.
• Provider collaboratives bring NHS providers together across one or more ICS, working with clinical networks, alliances and other partners to benefit from working at scale. 

System Leadership

The North East and Yorkshire region has developed a distinctive approach to system leadership based on the regional director working closely with chief executives of the four integrated care boards (ICBs) in the region, known as the 4+1 arrangement.

In this arrangement, a team of teams provides leadership across the region and ICBs have adapted this way of working in their systems with many leaders and staff involved. The regional team acts as a partner in its relationship with ICBs and works with and through them in overseeing the performance of NHS trusts.

Read more about System Leadership in the NHS: Learning from the North East and Yorkshire Region