The 42 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
  See the list of ICS leaders and follow links to each ICS website.
• Statutory list of integrated care board (ICB) areas
• Map of ICB 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