Integrated Care Systems
What are Integrated Care Systems?
Integrated care is about giving people the support they need, joined up across local councils, the NHS, and other partners. It removes traditional divisions between hospitals and family doctors, between physical and mental health, and between NHS and council services. In the past, these divisions have meant that too many people experienced disjointed care.
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are new partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, to coordinate services and to plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups.
The NHS Long Term Plan confirmed that all parts of England would be served by an integrated care system from April 2021, building on the lessons of the earliest systems and the achievements of earlier work through sustainability and transformation partnerships and vanguards.
Within the NHS England – Midlands region, we work in partnership with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). You can find further information about the services in your area below:
- NHS Birmingham and Solihull
- NHS Black Country
- NHS Coventry and Warwickshire
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire
- NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
- NHS Lincolnshire
- NHS Northamptonshire
- NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
- NHS Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent