Who pays and plans health services?

Integrated Care Systems are partnerships of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services, and to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area. West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is an integrated care system and Leeds in one of 5 places within this ICS.

Within the ICS there are two key bodies:

• Integrated care partnership (West Yorkshire calls theirs a Partnership Board). The board links in with all the wider partners including NHS organisations, councils, Healthwatch, the voluntary community social enterprise sector. The board covers health and care, housing, and employment etc. at place level e.g., Leeds. Through discussion with those partners, the partnership uses the information about the local population to create a plan for helping everyone who lives in the system area to live healthily.
• Integrated care board (ICB) The board oversees NHS money and helps to make sure the services are in place to make the strategy become a reality on the ground The ICB work is overseen by NHS England on a regional and national basis.

Find out more here:

• NHS Commissioning
• How does the NHS work?

Leeds is part of the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board along with Bradford District and Craven; Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.

This is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of the population, managing the NHS budget and arranging for the provision of health services in the West Yorkshire area.

Leeds has a place-based partnership, where local hospitals, care providers, local councils, doctors, and voluntary community organisations come together to discuss key health and care issues in Leeds.

Find out more here:

• West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
• Leeds Health and Care Partnership

Commissions primary care for example GPs, dentists and opticians and specialist services such as treatments for rare conditions and secure mental health care.

Find out more here: NHS England

Commissions Public Health services for Leeds

Find out more here: Public Health Services

This includes the 0-19 Public Health Integrated Nursing Service

Find out more here: LCH 0-19 Health and Wellbeing

Joint commissioning is where we do this together to make the best use of the resources we have available for example SENDIAS and Cluster support within schools.

We are working together to look at other opportunities for joint commissioning to improve outcomes for CYP with SEND.

Further information on joint commissioning to achieve better outcomes for SEND can be found in Council for Disabled Children’s Joint Commissioning Bulletins