Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs
Commons · Question 49789 · Tabled 1 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 12 May 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS on the capacity of ICBs to cut their running costs.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 12 May 2025
NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services, and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structures, to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running co...