NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) marked a significant milestone on Saturday 1 July as it commemorated one year since its establishment.
Over the past year, the ICB has made significant progress towards its commitment to creating happier, healthier communities across the region.
The success of the ICB has been achieved in collaboration with partners across the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, who share an ambition for a quality health and social care system for people in the region.
Some of the achievements that have been accomplished over the last 365 days include:
- The ‘One Workforce’ vision invited people from across the system to contribute to the task of defining our priorities and plans.
- Launch of the Let’s Get Better website to help people in Humber and North Yorkshire start well, live well and age well.
- Increased diagnostic capacity for the Lung Health Check programme means an extra 7,000 people could receive potentially life-saving lung scans every year.
- Confirmed as a National Discharge Frontrunner site, leading the way in developing and testing radical new approaches to discharging people from acute care.
- Launch of a comprehensive and pioneering tobacco control programme which aims to drive down smoking rates in Humber and North Yorkshire.
- Refurbishments to Whitby Hospital were completed, meaning services better meet the needs of the local population.
- Two larger GP practices in Bridlington providing care for residents and creating new opportunities for clinical development.
- New emergency departments open in Northern Lincolnshire, modernising and doubling the size of the previous Accident and Emergency units.
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established at the beginning of July last year, as part of plans set out in the Health and Care Act 2022, to place Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) on a statutory footing – empowering them to join up health and care services, improve population health and reduce health inequalities.
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is one of 42 ICSs across England. Covering an extensive geography, it serves a population of 1.7 million people.
For more information, visit humberandnorthyorkshire.org.uk.