Posted on: 16 March 2026
The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) will meet in public on Tuesday 24 March at the Briar Court Hotel, Halifax Road, Birchencliffe, Huddersfield HD3 3NT. The meeting will be available to watch on the ICB website.
At the meeting, the board will discuss the ICB organisational change, putting people’s voice at the heart of decision making, system performance and the strategic commissioning strategy and financial plan.
The Board is part of the legislation set out in the Health and Care Act 2022, which came into force on the 1 July 2022. It focuses on improving outcomes for people by addressing health inequalities, the difference in care received and effective use of budgets across the area. It is part of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, an integrated care system.
The board’s role includes delivering the Joint Forward Plan for health and care services in West Yorkshire as part of the area’s five-year strategy. Most decisions about circa £5 billion budget and the services delivered locally are made in the five local places of West Yorkshire, via its strong local place partnerships in Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield District.
The board also works alongside care provider collaboratives, such as The West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts, the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative, Community Care Collaborative and hospices working together.
People can submit questions about items on the agenda of the main board meeting to westyorkshireics.
They can also call 01924 317659 to submit questions.
People can also read the papers, or watch live online by visiting www.wypartnership.co.uk/meetings/integrated-care-board
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Notes to the editor
- West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership (WY HCP) is a large integrated care system (ICS) that supports 2.4 million people, living in urban and rural areas. 770,000 are children and young people. 530,000 people live in areas ranked as the poorest 10% of England. 20% of people are from minority ethnic communities. There are an estimated 400,000 unpaid carers, as many don’t access support. Together we employ over 100,000 staff and work alongside thousands of volunteers. The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and the Partnership Board are part of the Partnership.
- For more information about NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board visit www.
westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk
What are integrated care systems?
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services, and to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area.
Following several years of locally led development, recommendations of NHS England and NHS Improvement and Royal Assent of the Health and Care Act (2022), 42 ICSs were established across England on a statutory basis on 1 July 2022.
Each ICS includes:
- An Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) - a statutory committee jointly formed between the NHS Integrated Care Board and all upper-tier local authorities that fall within the ICS area. The ICP will bring together a broad alliance of partners concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, with membership determined locally. The ICP is responsible for producing an integrated care strategy on how to meet the health and wellbeing needs of the population in the ICS area. In West Yorkshire this is called the Partnership Board.
- The Integrated Care Board (ICB) - a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of the population, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of health services in the ICS area. When ICBs were legally established on the 1 July, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were abolished.
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