NHS England has announced that the WeBOB Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) will become an Integrated Care System (ICS).
See the BOB STP website for more details.
Two of its constituent areas are already Integrated Care Systems - namely Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire. These will become Integrated Care Partnerships. It is the declared policy of NHS England to push decision-making to the lowest appropriate level - so we hope that much of what has already been achieved in the Berkshire West ICS will be preserved and built upon.
The WeBOB area covering Western Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire is incoherent with respect to transport and natural connection. It will certainly be a great barrier to participation for ordinary members of the public to have to travel across this improbable area.
One can only note a certain rising organisational ferment across the NHS with Primary Care Networks, GP Alliances and CCGs all seeking to determine their places in the future structure.
As far as we know there has been no public consultation at all about this extraordinary move. A question was asked about this at a recent CCG Governing Body and we were told that it was far off or unlikely.
Furthermore, responsibility for workforce matters has been devolved to regions, thus separating it from training under Health Education England, which is a national body.
The WeBOB STP has established several work streams - among them:
Attachment | Size |
---|---|
Annoucement of Approval of WeBOB Application for ICS Status (PDF) | 192.78 KB |