Workshop on Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) Resource Allocation: National and Local Developments (November 2022)
Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) were established in 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022.
They assumed the previous statutory responsibilities held by now-abolished NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), including a duty to promote population health and tackle health inequalities. They receive funding for health inequalities on top of their core allocations.
There is an expectation in national guidance that much of ICBs’ allocations will be delegated to the ICBs’ constituent places: towns or boroughs usually aligning with local authority boundaries covering populations of 250-500,000.
A key tool in achieving this is the effective allocation of resources to places relative to need, whilst supporting the effective use of resources within those places. Place-based resource allocation tools and approaches currently exist, but they may require adaption or innovation, particularly considering the institutional and organisational setting of newly formed ICBs, and the opportunities that they offer.
We co-organised a workshop to enable discussion of current national and local development on resource allocation and related research and to provide ICBs the opportunity to come together and discuss their approaches to resource allocation. This workshop has helped to inform further research in this area.
The workshop took place on Thursday 17th of November 2022 and a summary of the discussions is available in the fulll report below:
- Report
All appendices are available upon request
More information:
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Laura Anselmi