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Integrated Care Boards: Reorganisation

Commons · Question 73486 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 82 of the NHS Ten Year Plan, whether ICBs undergoing re-organisation will be further re-organised if their boundaries are not coterminous with new strategic authorities.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 22 Sep 2025

To deliver a reduction in running costs, a number of integrated care boards (ICBs) will cluster together to share leadership and functions. Clustering ICBs remain legally separate organisations with their own financial allocations. It will mean that durin...