Integrated care in your area
As integrated care boards (ICBs) move towards leaner and simpler ways of working, some have agreed shared leadership arrangements.
These clustering arrangements have been agreed by NHS England’s Executive team and by ministers, and will allow those ICBs to harness a shared budget of sufficient size to improve efficiency and reduce running costs.
Clusters are arrangements that allow ICBs to work together through shared leadership and combined teams. However, clustering ICBs remain separate legal entities with unchanged boundaries, separate financial allocations and legal duties.
Any future decisions on ICB footprints and mergers will be taken by ministers in light of the Local Government Reorganisation process.
Integrated care systems (ICSs) in England bring together their local health and care organisations to improve outcomes, tackle inequalities and create better services.
ICSs have the flexibility to make their own decisions about how partners work together in their area. This will depend on factors like size, geography and population.
Most larger ICSs have a number of place-based partnerships that design and deliver integrated services for particular areas within the ICS. Like the integrated care partnership, they involve a range of people interested in improving health and care, including the NHS, local councils, voluntary community and social enterprise and other local organisations, working alongside local people.
Additionally, provider collaboratives bring together providers of local services to plan, deliver and transform, by working across multiple places with a shared purpose.
Read more about systems:
- More about each ICS – list of ICS leaders and follow links to ICS websites.
- Statutory list of ICB areas
- Map of ICB/ICS areas
- The integrated care board (establishment) order 2022
- The integrated care board (establishment) (variation) order 2023 – makes minor updates to the integrated care boards (establishment) order 2022 with effect from 1 April 2023.
- ICS boundary changes and mergers procedure, noting that any change to an ICB area is also a change to the ICS area.
Map of integrated care system areas
