What is an integrated care board (ICB)?
The Lancashire and South Integrated Care Board was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the former eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The role of the ICB is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access across Lancashire & South Cumbria. We also oversee how money is spent and make sure health services work well and are of high quality.
Our vision is to have a high quality, community-centred health and care system by 2035.
Everything we do is for the benefit of improving the health and wellbeing of the population and our people. Our core purpose as an ICB is to:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
ICB strategic objectives
- Improve quality, including safety, clinical outcomes, and patient experience
- To equalise opportunities and clinical outcomes across the area
- Make working in Lancashire and South Cumbria an attractive and desirable option for existing and potential employees
- Meet financial targets and deliver improved productivity
- Meet national and locally determined performance standards and targets
- To develop and implement ambitious, deliverable strategies
Joint Forward Plan strategic priorities
- We must strengthen our foundations by changing how organisations work together and how the NHS provides services to improve our financial situation.
- We must take urgent action to reduce the level of long-term disease, working with partners to prevent illness and reduce inequalities.
- We must move care closer to home wherever possible, strengthening primary and community care and integrating health and care services.
- We must make sure there is more consistent and high-quality care. We will standardise, network, and improve our pathways of care.
- We must take targeted action to deliver world-class care for priority diseases and conditions, population groups and communities.