Integrated Care Boards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assess the performance of ICBs.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The NHS Oversight Framework provides a consistent and transparent approach to assessing National Health Service organisations. The framework for 2026/27 is designed to drive medium-term system transformation while maintaining operational performance tracking, and introduces integrated care board (ICB) delivery segmentation, which is a data‑driven classification based on ICBs’ performance against national metrics. Further information is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-oversight-framework-2026-27/
NHS England undertakes a performance assessment of ICBs. Further information is available at the following link:
The latest summary of assessments is available at the following link:
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