Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 38394 on Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs, what proportion of running costs integrated care boards are being asked to reduce; and what guidance he has issued on which services should be reduced.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Integrated care boards (ICBs) have been asked to make 50% cuts to running costs. Further detail on the future of ICBs was provided in a letter issued to all ICBs and National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts on 1 April 2025. This letter is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/working-together-in-2025-26-to-lay-the-foundations-for-reform/
The letter details that in order to meet the expectations, ICBs should look carefully at functions where there is duplication.
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