About us
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board works with local and national partners to plan and commission health and care services in West Yorkshire.
The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board became a statutory organisation on the 1 July 2022 as part of the Government’s new Health and Care Act.
This statutory body is a new type of organisation, governed by partners and focused on collaboration as a means of driving improved outcomes for people in West Yorkshire. This sees us work at a West Yorkshire level and importantly for the 2.4million people living here, at a local level in Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield District.
Integrated Care Systems
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services improving the health of people who live and work in the area. West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is one of forty-two integrated care systems in England.
Integrated Care Systems are here to:
- Improve health outcomes for all people using information, data, and insight
- Tackle inequalities in experiences, outcomes, and access
- Help support broader social and economic development
- Enhance productivity and value for money
Benefits for colleagues and Communities
In West Yorkshire, we have four aims:
- reduce health inequalities
- manage unwarranted variations in care
- secure the wider benefits of investing in health and care
- use our collective resources wisely.
Our plea to you is for to recognise that this Partnership is yours – it belongs to us all. We are a new type of organisation in a new context. Our promise is that we will always focus on the difference we are making and in putting as much of the power as close to the problem to be solved as possible. Our places, provider collaboratives, primary care networks, our organisations and local people are the vehicles for change.
We have around £5bn to invest in West Yorkshire. We are clear that this is an investment in our people and our communities. Together we can start to address the issues that face us and seize the opportunities ahead.