Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB
The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the statutory organisation responsible for setting the strategic plan for the NHS in Hampshire and Isle of Wight to deliver its part of the health and care strategy. It allocates NHS resources through our four places and our transformation programmes to make sure the right health services are being delivered to people across the area.
Our purpose
We are here for our population. We have over 1.9m people living across Hampshire and Isle of Wight and our purpose is to ensure they are getting the best possible healthcare for their needs throughout their lives.
We were formed in 2022 as a new NHS statutory body as part of national changes to how the NHS works to lead and oversee the planning and delivery of strategic and operational priorities, the allocation of NHS resources, and the performance, quality and safety of services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
We do this with the aim of improving the health and healthcare outcomes of our local communities, by working with NHS England and local NHS providers, local authorities and other partners as part of an ‘Integrated Care System’.
Our ambition
Our ambition is to support local people to live healthier lives for longer and, when they do become ill, have better access to the right care in the right place at the right time.
We know that currently the NHS is facing significant challenges and issues that are impacting how local people receive support, care and treatment. The number of people using services is growing all the time and the services have not been able to keep up. This has resulted in too many people not always getting the right care in the right place for their needs, people are waiting too long for care too often, people are staying too long in hospital when they would be better cared for elsewhere, and people working across services are being put under increasing pressure.
We need to focus more on improving outcomes of local people, and their whole experience of using services, rather than individual episodes of care. We need organisations and teams to work in a more joined-up way, maximising innovation and research.
To achieve this, we have a ‘Renewed Ambition’ that sets out four key areas we are focusing on delivering, strengthening and developing across Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) in future:
How we work with system partners
We know that achieving our ambition can only be done by partners working together. For improvements to be made, health and care organisations need to work in a more joined-up (‘integrated’) way to collectively transform the way health and care is planned, co-ordinated and delivered.
We formally began working as an ‘Integrated Care System’ in 2022 which has allowed and encouraged more collaboration and partnership working across partners. We have a system ‘operating model’ built around local people that we are strengthening that involves organisations working closer together across:
- Integrated neighbourhood working
- Place-based Partnerships
- NHS provider collaborations
- System-wide
This way of working enables better integration of services, use of resources, coordination, planning and decision-making that lead to better joined-up care for local people and better ways of working for our people working across services. It is intended to support, rather than replace or undermine, existing organisational accountabilities.
