Chair's Blog

Working Together to Improve Care for Patients and Service Users It is four weeks since our Integrated Care Board (ICB) became a statutory organisation. It feels as if time is moving very quickly for all of us, and the ICS is very aware of the stresses and pressures in our system overall – in acute … Read more

Getting the balance right as we face the challenges of an emergent ICB It is only eight days until the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is formally established and holds its first official meeting of the board. One of 42 Integrated Care Systems, our ICB will become a key part of … Read more

The clue is in the name! At the heart of Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is a commitment to genuine partnership working with all those who have a stake in delivering and supporting health and care services across our wide geography. We will become a broad alliance of organisations, jointly convened by … Read more

It’s so good to be able to be out and about again! A key part of my role is to ‘induct’ myself into the many partners of our ICS, as well as share the progress and ambitions of the ICS widely. Delivering health and social care across our very significant geography involves thousands of people, … Read more

Building a strong Integrated Care System I frequently find myself describing the evolution of our ICS as a ‘construction project’! This seems to me to explain the logical way in which we are establishing our Integrated Care System (ICS): we can’t build the roof for example until the supporting structures are in place. Like a construction … Read more

Refreshing our identity to reflect a new name and purpose Our work to develop our Integrated Care System is taking place in many ways, in many places and with many people working hard to turn our shared vision into reality. Thank you to everyone. As we grow closer to the proposed date for Integrated Care … Read more

Cementing relationships in North East Lincolnshire Lately, I have been describing this period of developing our Integrated Care System (ICS) as in ‘the construction phase’. Many colleagues and partners are contributing to the construction of the ICS, and as chair my special building projects include building the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and relationships with partners. … Read more

With each passing week our ICS develops…. There is a sequential process to ‘building’ an ICS, and much of that is to do with people. In my case, over the last couple of weeks, recruiting to our Integrated Care Board. This process will draw to a close shortly, and our ICS board should be in … Read more

New ways of delivering care offer improved health outcomes for communities. It is well known that all successful organisations coalesce around a very clear sense of purpose. Our Integrated Care System (ICS) in common with all ICSs, has a very clear purpose – improving the health of our population, seeking to reduce health inequalities which … Read more

Developing the role of the ICS Chair requires equal amounts of ‘looking in’ and ‘looking out’. By ‘looking in’, I mean focussing on those matters which are important to the development of our ICS, not least the significant recruitment which seeks to shape our leadership team. This work is progressing well, and we remain on … Read more