The local Greater Huddersfield Commissioning Group has now been replaced by the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
From Friday 1 July 2022, the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership (WY HCP) will include a new statutory organisation within it called the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). The new Board is part of new legislation set out in the Health and Care Act 2022, which focuses on improving outcomes for people by addressing health inequalities, the difference in care received and effective use of budgets across the area.
The Integrated Care Board will have a broad scope and pick up the functions of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) when they are abolished on the 1 July. It will lead on some functions that previously sat in NHS England, Health Education England and elsewhere. This brings greater coherence and resources to local partnerships and provides an opportunity to build on the successful work of WY HCP.
The organisation will be led by Chief Executive Rob Webster CBE and an independent Chair, Cathy Elliott.
The Board also includes members from WY HCP’s five local places and includes ICB Directors for Finance, Nursing, People, a Medical Director and a Director of Strategy and Partnerships. Board members also include representation from:
- NHS acute hospitals
- Mental health, learning disability and autism providers
- Community health service providers
- Directors of public health
- Local councils
- Primary care providers
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises.
The Board will be tasked with delivering a strategy that is built from local Health and Wellbeing Board Plans, and consolidated at the Partnership Board, which will be Chaired by Cllr Tim Swift , Leader of Calderdale Council. This Partnership Board brings all partners across West Yorkshire.
The Integrated Care Board will agree a plan for health and care services in West Yorkshire that delivers the strategy and most decisions about circa £5billion budget and services delivered will be made locally in the five local places.