Integrated Care Boards: Rural Areas
Commons · Question 66063 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of merging of integrated care boards on (a) Dorset and (b) other rural areas.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Jul 2025
No mergers involving the seven integrated care boards (ICBs) in the South West NHS England footprint have been approved.The Dorset ICB, the Somerset ICB, and the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB are preparing to ‘cluster’ by April 2...