Summary of all 42 NHS Integrated Care System (ICS) Strategies

This is a summary of the strategic priorities of all 42 NHS Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across England. These priorities are organised around five key pillars in alignment with NHS England priorities for integrated care systems: improving population health outcomes, tackling health inequalities, enhancing productivity and value, supporting social and economic development, and driving digital health initiatives.

The individual ICS strategy documents are linked too so you can review each strategy in more detail.

ICS Improving Population Health Outcomes Tackling Health Inequalities Enhancing Productivity and Value Supporting Social and Economic Development Driving Digital Health Initiatives Strategy URL
NHS North East and North Cumbria ICS Reduce life expectancy gap, improve healthy lifestyles, tackle smoking, obesity, alcohol misuse, enhance mental health services, early cancer diagnosis Implement Core20Plus5 framework, focus on deprived areas, ensure better care for vulnerable groups, address health inequalities in life expectancy and disease Increase care efficiency, improve workforce capacity, address staff shortages in primary care, boost elective service recovery post-COVID Collaborate with local partners, promote better housing, employment, education, anchor institutions to tackle economic deprivation, support ageing populations Expand use of digital tech, improve data integration, promote self-care via digital tools, develop real-time data analytics for proactive care​ https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk/media/v2hchnti/final-nenc-integrated-care-strategy-16-december-2022.pdf
NHS Greater Manchester ICS Expanding proactive care, reducing preventable illness, improving early intervention, enhancing access to primary care and community-based services. Focused on addressing socioeconomic disparities in housing, education, and employment, targeting the most deprived areas. Improving system-wide cost efficiency, boosting productivity through demand reduction, enhancing service transformation. Promoting inclusive economic growth, addressing long-term worklessness, and boosting early years development and school readiness. Expanding the GM Care Record, increasing data use for patient care, supporting research, scaling virtual wards and remote monitoring. https://gmintegratedcare.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/gm-icp-strategy-190423.pdf
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICS Focus on prevention, reduce cardiovascular deaths, cancer rates, obesity, improve mental health, maternal, and infant mortality​. Address social determinants of health, reduce deprivation, improve housing, promote fair employment, reduce poverty. Maximise system-wide collaboration, reduce costs via shared services, develop workforce, enhance research innovation. Expand anchor institution roles, create local job opportunities, implement mental health initiatives in schools​. Build system-wide digital platforms, enhance remote care, support patient portals, shared care records, predictive analytics​. https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/media/hxqpdrot/cheshire-merseyside-draft-interim-hcp-strategy-2023.pdf
NHS West Yorkshire ICS Increase healthy life expectancy, address trauma and poverty, reduce cardiovascular, respiratory disease, cancer, and suicides. Narrow life expectancy gap, focus on physical health checks, particularly for serious mental illness, learning disabilities, and autism. Embed system-wide leadership, integrate work to maximise resources, ensure seamless transitions in care to improve outcomes. Tackle climate change, reduce health inequalities, focus on skills, job creation, and economic growth. Enable self-care via digital channels, improve data use, offer seamless access across the system, enhance digital consultations. https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/application/files/2016/8543/4590/WYHCP723_Five_Year_Integrated_Care_Strategy_May_2023.pdf
NHS North West London ICS Reduce smoking, tackle high blood pressure, improve healthy weight and exercise, increase childhood immunisation rates. Standardise care quality across boroughs, focus on underrepresented groups, reduce cancer diagnosis delays. Increase surgery day-case rates, improve diagnostics, reduce waiting times, integrate care services. Increase employment for disadvantaged communities, improve housing, support local businesses, and address wider determinants like air quality and transport. Implement shared electronic records, AI for diagnostics, improve digital inclusion, support remote care. https://www.nwlondonicb.nhs.uk/application/files/6016/9902/9759/NW_London_ICS_Health_and_Care_Strategy_2023.pdf
NHS South East London ICS Prevention, early detection, promoting healthier lives, addressing mental health and long-term conditions, improving children’s health. Focusing on deprived communities, addressing disparities in access, culturally appropriate services, targeting marginalised groups. Streamlining services, optimising resources, reducing inefficiencies, improving workforce integration. Collaboration with local authorities, creating jobs, reducing poverty, supporting healthier lifestyles and community wellbeing. Investing in digital capabilities, enabling remote monitoring, improving access to online consultations and data-sharing. https://www.selondonics.org/wp-content/uploads/SEL-ICS-strategic-priorities.pdf
NHS North East London ICS Use data to identify high-need cohorts, allocate resources optimally, focus on prevention, early intervention, and managing long-term conditions Reduce disparities in access, outcomes, focusing on ethnic minorities, poverty, learning disabilities, and homelessness, address wider determinants like housing and employment Maximise value from £4bn budget, invest in prevention, reduce waste, harmonise urgent care, address workforce gaps, reduce agency reliance Increase local employment, focus on social value in procurement, support health creation through community partnerships, address poverty Link NHS and social care data across providers, reduce digital exclusion, increase access to care records, enhance remote care access https://northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/NEL-Interim-integrated-care-strategy-31-January-2023-final.pdf
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS Supporting self-care, increasing health literacy, reducing premature deaths from preventable diseases. Reducing access barriers for deprived communities, targeting specific ethnic groups. Improving recruitment and retention, maximising workforce efficiency. Promoting active travel, improving housing, supporting employment opportunities. Implementing shared care records, enhancing digital literacy, supporting virtual care. https://ehq-production-europe.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ebdd4ec9a987c06ed73c8264ac8833274aafe60c/original/1678894014/177cfe89a04168e74401bbd2b4d34eae_230307_BOB_ICP_Integrated_Care_Strategy_-_FINAL.pdf
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS Reduce preventable mortality, promote proactive care, focus on integrated community health. Address root causes, improve outcomes for deprived areas, reduce avoidable emergency admissions. Boost elective care access, outpatient improvements, better resource coordination. Support local economic growth, reduce health inequalities, enhance workforce wellbeing. Enhance digital access, create shared records, address digital exclusion, empower workforce. https://www.hantsiow.icb.nhs.uk/application/files/4516/7473/3225/Hampshire_and_Isle_of_Wight_Integrated_Care_Strategy_.pdf
NHS North Central London ICS Focus on building capacity, embedding population health insights, prevention and improving population outcomes across all system levels. Address inequalities through targeted actions using data-driven insights, community involvement, and Core20PLUS5 framework for high-risk groups. Allocate resources more effectively by identifying variations in outcomes, focusing on early intervention and prevention to improve overall system efficiency. Collaborate to strengthen local economies, widen employment access, and address root causes of poor health like housing and education. Increase digital inclusion, scale up technology in care, proactive care@home, integrate data across services for better health outcomes. https://nclhealthandcare.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PH-IC-Strategy-V.Final-long-version.pdf
NHS Kent and Medway ICS Ensure a whole system approach to Population Health Management, use data to identify drivers of poor health, improve proactive care across all life stages. Address avoidable health disparities, focus on most deprived areas, ensure equitable access to services, adopt Core20PLUS5 model for targeted improvements. Increase capacity through service redesign, reduce waste, drive continual improvement by sharing best practices, use of innovation and research for greater efficiency. Create sustainable economic growth through job creation, skills development, and infrastructure, ensuring everyone benefits from prosperity, tackling inequalities in employment. Implement digital and data programmes, reduce complexity, empower digital champions, invest in single clinical systems to enhance data sharing and improve patient care access. https://www.kmhealthandcare.uk/application/files/5216/8476/6108/Kent_and_Medway_Interim_Integrated_Care_Strategy.pdf
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS Increase healthy life expectancy, reduce disparities, prioritise prevention, early intervention, childhood development, mental health, dementia care, support for lifelong conditions, coordinated health and care services. Target deprived areas, focus on physical disabilities, chronic conditions, maternal care, reduce life expectancy gaps, address housing, employment, and access to services, personalised care through data insights. Reduce care fragmentation, streamline service integration, improve workforce planning, boost preventive care, reduce emergency admissions, scale cost-effective care models, ensure sustainability. Promote accessible housing, inclusive employment practices, support local recruitment, enhance economic opportunities, improve community involvement, tackle poverty, collaborate on green spaces, pollution reduction. Expand digital infrastructure, promote remote care, facilitate real-time data sharing, ensure universal access to health information, enable patient self-management, digital inclusion, drive tech-enabled integrated service delivery. https://www.hertsandwestessex.ics.nhs.uk/about/icp/strategy/
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS Focus on prevention, early intervention, reducing long-term conditions, increasing healthy life expectancy, promoting self-care, integrating services. Address social determinants like fuel poverty, mental health, housing, obesity, improving access in deprived areas. Reduce system pressures, streamline care pathways, increase cost-effectiveness, enhance workforce efficiency, reduce wait times. Increase employment, improve skills, support community-led development, enhance workplace wellbeing, empower disadvantaged areas. Expand digital access, improve health data sharing, increase telehealth services, reduce digital exclusion, design tech-based services with community input. https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk/application/files/2516/8742/3757/ICP_Strategy_Document.pdf
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICS Narrowing the gap in healthy life expectancy by 5 years by 2035, prevent avoidable deaths, promote proactive health management. Reducing life expectancy disparities between affluent and deprived areas, focus on mental health and rural populations. Maximising resource use, reducing hospital admissions, improving care at home, focusing on prevention. Grow local workforce, support job creation, promote health roles, reduce environmental impact. Expand digital access, ensure 61% in Hull have connectivity, integrate health data systems across sectors. https://humberandnorthyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Item-16-HNY-Integrated-Health-and-Care-Strategy-Final-Draft2.pdf
NHS Sussex ICS Focus on prevention, proactive care, improving health outcomes, especially for vulnerable groups, reducing long-term conditions Reduce life expectancy gaps, focus on deprived areas, address higher risk groups, target underserved populations Maximise resource efficiency, reduce hospital admissions, streamline services, increase community care Collaborate with local sectors, create healthy environments, focus on children, housing, and employment Integrate services through data sharing, improve access to care via digital tools, increase patient engagement https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/01/0438-NHS-Sussex-VF4-4.pdf
NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICS Targeting key areas: circulatory disease, cancer, mental health, prevention, early intervention, lifestyle improvements to increase life expectancy. Reducing access disparities across communities, focus on racial, geographic, identity-based inequalities using data, integration, and service redesign. Achieving financial efficiency through better skill mix, reducing service burden, enhancing early intervention and prevention to minimise complications. Leveraging ICS as anchor institutions, fostering local employment, supporting local education, and improving community safety through partnerships. Secure data flow, improve integration between services, enhance prevention and treatment efficiency, promote digital solutions for patient care. https://www.birminghamsolihull.icb.nhs.uk/application/files/7216/8121/4484/BSICS_ICS_Plan_FINAL_WEB_VERSION_ACCESSIBLE.pdf
NHS South West London ICS Focus on healthy weight, reducing obesity, scaling successful local initiatives, prioritising interventions with the most long-term impact​. Addressing Core20PLUS5 framework, prioritising deprived populations, reducing racial disparities, adopting anti-racism framework​. Better use of resources, improve system-wide collaboration, population health management, increased value from existing programmes​. Supporting local economies through job creation, apprenticeships, promoting health and care employment, London Living Wage accreditation​. Increase use of digital care plans, training staff, addressing digital exclusion, improving access to self-care resources and rationalising NHS apps​. https://www.southwestlondonics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/15856-SWL-NHS-SWL-Integrated-Care-Strategy-Document-Summer-23.pdf
NHS South Yorkshire ICS Focus on preventing ill health, reducing risk factors (e.g., smoking, obesity), early intervention, supporting mental well-being. Targeting groups most affected by deprivation and systemic barriers, enhancing access to services for at-risk populations. Increasing workforce productivity, reducing sickness absence, focusing on preventative care, improving resource allocation. Supporting green jobs, lifelong learning, inclusive labour markets, ensuring equitable economic participation for communities. Promote digital inclusion, integrate digital health tools, implement shared care records, enhance workforce digital maturity. https://syics.co.uk/application/files/6816/8666/8429/015307_SYB_South_Yorkshire_Integrated_Care_Strategy_Doc.V20.pdf
NHS Black Country ICS Reduce high disease prevalence, address obesity, lower healthy life expectancy, improve mental health, and increase access to services. Reduce significant deprivation, target underserved communities, address BAME health disparities, improve life expectancy, and decrease infant mortality. Streamline services, reduce workforce shortages, promote training, increase collaboration between NHS and local care services. Improve employment, leverage partnerships with local councils, address poverty, enhance housing and environmental health factors. Implement digital tools for service efficiency, improve patient records integration, tackle digital exclusion in healthcare. https://blackcountryics.org.uk/application/files/8216/7544/0961/Black_Country_ICP_Initial_Integrated_Care_Strategy_2023-25_V5.5.pdf
NHS Mid and South Essex ICS Promote early intervention, childhood obesity prevention, improving mental health support, aligned efforts across health and education, focus on maternal and children’s health. Focus on Core20PLUS5, targeting the most deprived 20%, minority ethnic groups, and clinical priorities like cancer, COPD, hypertension management, mental illness. Increase use of non-medical support, innovative care models, prevention-focused strategies, improved alignment across system partners to reduce resource strain and promote long-term savings. Align health,workforce initiatives with anchor institutions, engaging education sectors to build future workforce pipelines in health and care settings. Enhance data-sharing, ral divide, drive evidence-based decisions, resident-centric digital systems, enabling more coordinated care, and better use of technology. https://www.midandsouthessex.ics.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Integrated-Care-Strategy-2022-2033-30_3_23.pdf
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS Focus on children’s first 1,001 days, support frail older people, reduce hospital admissions by 5%, prioritise mental health parity. Address needs of 20% most deprived, focus on smoking, alcohol, mental health, oral health, and healthy weight to prevent premature deaths. System-wide recruitment hub, 5% fall in hospital admissions, workforce turnover target at 10%, reduce staff absence to 4.5%. Anchor institutions supporting local jobs, environmental sustainability, apprenticeships, and reducing carbon emissions. Common outcomes metrics, virtual intelligence system, digital staff passports for seamless cross-system working. https://healthandcarenotts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Integrated-Care-Strategy-2023_27.pdf
NHS Devon ICS By 2028, reduce DALYs from top five risk factors, focus on early death causes, improve suicide prevention, increase life expectancy. Increase digital access, reduce fuel poverty by 2%, reduce falls by 20%, 100% housing offer for homeless by 2028. Unify procurement, improve patient service navigation by 2026, vacancies among lowest in England by 2028. Close employment gaps for those with conditions by 5%, reduce NEET rates to below national average by 2028. Standardize digital infrastructure across Devon, connect systems, improve patient access to records and remote care. https://onedevon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Devon-Plan-ICS-Strategy-FINAL-300623-1.pdf
NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICS Promoting self-care, early intervention, resilience, and digital solutions to reduce demand on services, keeping people healthier at home longer. Target deprived areas, address housing, accessibility, and service disparities, focusing on vulnerable, rural, and seldom-heard communities. Create a sustainable workforce, shift investment to community-based services, align strategies for improved access, and reduce healthcare demand. Leverage community assets like green spaces, engage local authorities and third sector, enhance service capacity, improve health outcomes via collaboration. Promote digital tools, apps, and technologies to increase accessibility, personalise advice, and drive innovative care delivery. https://improvinglivesnw.org.uk/~documents/uncategorized/the-norfolk-and-waveney-integrated-care-strategy
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICS Targeting high-risk groups with tailored interventions, focusing on prevention and reducing variation in care across all life stages through evidence-based, data-driven decision-making. Systematic approach to reduce access, experience, and outcome disparities, proactively addressing social determinants and inclusion health groups at highest risk. Increase efficiency by integrating services, improving workforce skill mix, reducing care demand through prevention, and optimizing resources via continuous quality improvement. Empower local communities, promote employment, housing, and education access, co-develop community-based solutions, and tackle determinants impacting long-term health. Accelerate shared care records, improve service coordination, empower self-management, and innovate digital tools to enhance access, efficiency, and personalised care. https://staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk/your-nhs-integrated-care-board/our-publications/integrated-care-partnership/acge-13346-ssot-icp-strategy-design-v4-23-04-13-single-page/?layout=default
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS Prioritize prevention, integrate care for frailty, mental and physical health, co-production with communities, focus on value-based commissioning, address wider determinants through collaborative work. Reduce disparities by targeting underserved groups, address barriers for ethnic minorities, carers, people with disabilities, and focus on Core20Plus5 interventions addressing life expectancy gaps, including in deprived areas. Reduce clinical variation, optimize resource allocation, enhance primary care identification, manage demand through digital solutions, reduce reliance on hospital care, and increase self-care initiatives to decrease long-term condition rates. Leverage NHS as anchor institutions, using resources to improve workforce skills, promote local employment, support local suppliers, utilize NHS estates for community benefit, and foster civic responsibility to address broader social and environmental determinants of health. Digital transformation through mature Electronic Patient Records (EPR), improve data quality, consolidate digital systems, ensure levelled-up digital maturity across partners, and integrate digital solutions into health and social care for improved patient experience. https://leicesterleicestershireandrutland.icb.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LLR-ICB-5YP-FINAL-v5.0_FINAL_Signed.pdf
NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICS Increase life expectancy, reduce preventable mortality from CVD, cancer, respiratory disease, through early intervention, prevention, and population health management. Reduce access, experience, and outcome disparities, focus on deprived areas, minority groups, mental health, early cancer detection. Focus on prevention, early intervention for key conditions, reduce demand for treatment, workforce optimisation for sustainability. Align health and care with economic growth, address poverty and poor housing, create employment, improve air quality. Drive interoperable systems, improve digital literacy, ensure equitable access to care, prioritise based on digital maturity assessments. https://joinedupcarederbyshire.co.uk/download/derby-and-derbyshire-integrated-care-strategy-2023/?wpdmdl=20612&refresh=6713640f1de691729324047
NHS Surrey Heartlands ICS Increase healthy life expectancy, target lifestyle improvements, reduce long-term illness burden, promote early diagnosis. Reduce 8-year life expectancy gaps, improve early cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes, respiratory disease prevention for deprived groups. Increase collaboration, reduce service duplication, enhance financial efficiency through integrated care and innovation. Promote partnerships to improve wellbeing, tackle poverty, housing, social isolation, and environmental challenges. Deliver integrated digital platforms, improve data-sharing, and use virtual wards, falls prevention tech, population health hubs. https://www.surreyheartlands.org/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n1371.pdf&ver=1395
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICS Joined-up, preventative, person-centred care across life course, informed by evidence and lived experience, focused on outcomes that matter to local people. Address wider determinants of health, involving cross-sector collaboration, lived experience and data-driven action to reduce disparities across communities. Efficient, coordinated services, focusing on collective impact, improving experiences, delivering measurable improvements in care outcomes, reducing waste. Collaborate across health, care, and wider sectors, fostering growth, improving well-being, and supporting local economies with cross-sector strategies. Leverage digital tools, ensure accessibility, support data sharing, enhance preventative care, integrate services to transform population health and care delivery. https://www.sneeics.org.uk/working-together/integrated-care-strategy/
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICS Preventing avoidable ill health, focusing on smoking, obesity, early mental health intervention, improving access to primary care. Reducing poor outcomes in deprived areas, tackling inequities for Bangladeshi, Caribbean, Pakistani communities, addressing early death disparities. Improving investment in preventive care, supporting people in their homes, driving service efficiency across care systems. Leveraging collective economic power for local growth, addressing climate emergency, building healthy, connected communities. Implementing data-driven tools like AI, addressing digital access barriers, scaling innovative technologies in care systems. https://bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ICS-Strategy-300623_.pdf
NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICS Increase healthy life expectancy, reduce health gaps, engage diverse communities. Target marginalised groups, improve health equity, focus on deprived areas, co-produce. Maximise resource efficiency, improve system-wide collaboration, ensure sustainable NHS funding. Address unemployment, support community health, partner for inclusive economic growth. Implement digital health tools, improve data sharing, ensure accessibility for all communities. https://bedfordshirelutonandmiltonkeynes.icb.nhs.uk/our-publications/strategies/working-with-people-and-communities-strategy-december-2022-2025/?layout=default
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICS Expand Population Health Management capabilities, focusing on prevention, infrastructure, intelligence, interventions, supporting health outcomes, and sustainable care. Implement Core20PLUS5, shift resources to areas with greatest need, embed health equity assessment across all services, tackle determinants like housing, employment, and education. Drive transformation through integrated financial planning, maximize productivity, allocate resources based on outcomes, focus on efficiency and sustainability. Improve health outcomes through inclusive economic growth, linking good health with employment, income, skills, and addressing local disparities. Establish digital literacy, expand integrated care records, ensure modern, secure infrastructure, improve patient access, and implement real-time digital platforms for proactive care. https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/clientfiles/files/C%26W%20Integrated%20Care%20Strategy%20Final%20July%202023.docx
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICS Focus on prevention, early intervention, increasing physical activity, reducing smoking and obesity, promoting mental wellbeing Address health access gaps using CORE20PLUS5, target ethnic minorities, manual workers, reduce health outcome disparities Shift funding towards prevention, increase efficiency, quality, financial sustainability, prioritise primary and community care investment Develop sustainable, health-promoting environments, integrate services across NHS, councils, police, housing, focus on improving transport, housing Expand virtual wards, enhance community diagnostic facilities, promote remote monitoring, integrate Electronic Patient Records for seamless care​ https://bswtogether.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Integrated-Care-Strategy-v4.pdf
NHS Lincolnshire ICS Focus on prevention, early intervention, promoting healthier lifestyles, reducing smoking and obesity, increasing physical activity, improving mental health and wellbeing, addressing wider health determinants. Reduce gaps in childhood vaccination rates, premature deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), focus on deprived populations, mental health disparities, address social determinants, improve access to care. Improve care efficiency, reduce costs, use resources effectively, adopt technology-driven approaches, upskill workforce, improve digital literacy, enhance service delivery, reduce service pressures. Create healthier communities, reduce unemployment, improve access to jobs, upskill local workforce, tackle long-term joblessness, support economic resilience through health improvement initiatives. Expand use of digital tools, enhance self-care, implement shared care records, increase digital inclusion, support remote monitoring, improve digital literacy for staff and public, streamline service access. https://lhih.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Better-Lives-Lincolnshire_Integrated-Care-Partnership-Strategy_March-2024.pdf
NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS Focus on prevention, personalised care, improving access, addressing ill health, reducing premature deaths, especially in vulnerable groups. Embed prevention, address structural determinants like housing and income, empower staff and patients to reduce inequalities in access, outcomes, and experience. Maximise shared resources, reduce duplication, enhance service access, streamline population health management. Leverage partnerships to tackle challenges like rurality, housing, fuel poverty, and employment for local growth. Achieve digital maturity with HIMSS level 5, use data-driven insights, interoperability, and technology for self-management. https://www.hwics.org.uk/application/files/7516/8303/1109/HW_Integrated_Care_Strategy_02.05.2023.pdf
NHS Dorset ICS Reduce long-term conditions, improve control of risk factors like diabetes, promote early support through integrated neighbourhood teams, and involve voluntary sector. Focus on equitable access, outcomes for deprived communities, reduce 10-year life expectancy gap, target poverty’s health impact. Optimise care processes by reducing hospital stays, prioritising prevention, enhancing workforce flexibility. Invest in communities through wellbeing hubs, improve mental health, tackle unemployment, support housing needs. Enable technology for personal care plans, increase access to digital tools, improve efficiency, and reduce duplication. https://ourdorset.org.uk/strategy/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/04/Working-Better-Together-Strategy-V3.4-Spreads.pdf
NHS Frimley ICS Promote preventative care, improve early detection of conditions, reduce avoidable hospital admissions, focus on cardiovascular risk and healthy weight. Prioritise reducing health inequalities in deprived areas, focus on diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and child health inequalities using targeted population management approaches. Maximise resources through digital innovations, enhance clinical productivity, increase access to self-care tools, and streamline health services. Foster partnerships with local authorities, voluntary sectors to drive workforce development, infrastructure, and address social determinants of health. Expand shared care record, remote monitoring, predictive analytics, and patient self-management tools to optimise service delivery and health outcomes. https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/documents/s90851/Item%205%20-%20Annex%202b%20-%20Frimley%20ICS%20Strategy%202022%20-%20Draft%20V2.pdf
NHS Northamptonshire ICS Reducing hospital admissions, improving long-term condition management, promoting healthy ageing, enhancing mental health resilience. Addressing deprivation-driven inequalities like poor housing, poverty, and reduced life expectancy, focusing on cardiovascular, cancer, and respiratory conditions. Optiource use by integrating services across sectors, focusing on prevention to reduce high-cost hospital care. Utchor institutions to promote local job growth, training, and community health, aligning with levelling up agendas and reducing social inequalities. Ensuring population-wito integrated, high-quality digital health solutions, joining up health and care data, and enhancing care efficiency through digital pathways. https://voluntaryimpact.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ICN-Strategy-Final-Jan-23.pdf
NHS Gloucestershire ICS Focus on early intervention, prevention, improving physical/mental wellbeing, reducing avoidable mortality, embedding primary prevention at all levels. Address Core20PLUS5 framework, focusing on the 20% most deprived, health equity for inclusion groups, reduce employment gaps and access disparities. Improve workforce well-being, reduce vacancies, joint recruitment, productivity recovery, streamline urgent/emergency care to pre-pandemic levels. Leverage anchor organisations for local employment, use procurement to boost local economy, foster social resilience, address housing-related health issues. Implementing digital tools, building infrastructure for data-sharing, reducing digital exclusion, enabling population health management, enhancing citizen control over health via technology. https://www.onegloucestershire.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Interim-Integrated-Care-Strategy-v1.1.pdf
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS Increasing the number of years people live in good health, reducing early deaths under 75, improving child development indicators. Focus on ethnic minority groups, people with learning disabilities, addressing inequalities in mental health, maternity, and chronic diseases. Reducing waiting times, improving access to care through digital transformation, redesigning care pathways, behaviour change programs. Reducing poverty by improving employment, housing, and skills, enhancing workforce mental health, decarbonizing estates. Population Health Management approach, co-designing services with communities, creating integrated, data-driven platforms, improving digital literacy. https://cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Health-and-wellbeing-integrated-care-strategy.pdf
NHS Somerset ICS Increase life expectancy, focus on prevention, reduce hospital admissions, support healthier lifestyles. Target disadvantaged groups, reduce inequality in life expectancy, address socio-economic, geographic, and access disparities. Streamline care, reduce duplication, use data to improve services, focus on complex needs and early intervention. Promote local employment, health equity, involve voluntary sectors, address wider social determinants. Leverage data to improve care, enable remote monitoring, reduce digital exclusion, protect data privacy. https://nhssomerset.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/Somerset-Health-and-Care-Strategy-compressed.pdf
NHS Cornwall and The Isles Of Scilly ICS Increase uptake in NHS Health Checks for ages 40-75, focus on early diagnosis, reduce long-term condition prevalence. Reduce health inequalities by targeting key drivers like employment, housing, and improving cardiovascular disease care. Boost staff digital literacy, reduce delays in discharges, improve use of digital tools for efficiency and care. Partner with local employers and housing providers to boost job opportunities, improve housing, support reintegration. Expand virtual wards, implement new electronic patient record system, improve data-sharing infrastructure across all sectors. https://docs.cios.icb.nhs.uk/DocumentsLibrary/NHSCornwallAndIslesOfScilly/Organisation/Policies/ICSStrategyfullversion.pdf
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS Prioritise hypertension, cancer screening, mental health, reduce alcohol and drug impact, enhance proactive preventative care for long-term conditions. Target deprived areas, address access barriers, prioritise BAME groups, homelessness, mental health inequalities, proactive engagement for SMI and autism healthcare. Shift more care to community settings, prevent hospital admissions, emphasise early intervention, and enhance cost efficiency in primary care and home care. Integrate local planning, focus on workforce growth, tackle housing and poverty issues, and boost skills development in collaboration with local economy. Develop shared care records, expand remote monitoring, leverage AI for better data insights, focus on reducing digital exclusion and enabling real-time data access. https://www.shropshiretelfordandwrekin.ics.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NHS-STW-Interim-Integrated-Care-Strategy-V-9.0-002.pdf

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