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NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)
  • About our Integrated Care Board
    • About our Integrated Care Board
    • Who's who
    • Our partners
    • Integrated Care Board constitution
    • Committees
    • Governance
      • Governance
      • National Fraud Initiative
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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Improving the diversity of our leadership
    • About integrated care systems
    • How we use data
    • General Practice information
    • Emergency preparedness, resilience and response
    • ICB organisational structure
  • Places
    • Places
    • Bradford District and Craven
    • Calderdale
    • Kirklees
    • Leeds
    • Wakefield District
  • Meetings
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    • Annual General Meetings (AGMs)
      • Annual General Meetings (AGMs)
      • Annual General Meeting - 24 September 2024
    • Integrated Care Board
      • Integrated Care Board
      • Board engagement sessions
        • Board engagement sessions
        • Community services
        • Mental Health Services
        • Access to Primary Care
        • Healthwatch representation on our board and committees
    • Audit Committee
    • Finance, Investment and Performance Committee
    • Quality committee
    • Remuneration and Nomination Committee
    • Transformation Committee
    • Place committees
  • Documents
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    • Annual Report and Accounts
      • Annual Report and Accounts
      • Integrated Care Board Annual Report 2023-24
      • Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
    • Commissioning policies and contract updates
    • Governance documents and policies
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    • Our Joint Forward Plan 2024
    • Publication scheme
    • Medicines classification and guidelines
    • NHS continuing healthcare
    • Disclosure log
    • Corporate policies
    • Zero tolerance
    • Accreditation for the award of contracts
    • Modern slavery statement
    • People Strategy 2024-2027
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Governance

Our constitution

The integrated care board members will oversee how money is spent and make sure that health services work well and are of high quality, bringing together hospitals and community providers, primary care (for example GPs, community services, dental services, pharmacy), local councils, hospices, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations and Healthwatch partners in our local places. To help enable this, we have a constitution.

  • Visit our constitution page

The constitution is an important document that sets out what the board will do and how it will work.  We developed the constitution following NHS England guidance and with the support of our partners and stakeholder. The involvement period in 2021 produced responses from partners, external stakeholders, and members of the public. You can read the feedback here.

To support the constitution, there is a governance handbook, which was agreed by the ICB Board at its meeting on 1 July. This sets out how decisions are made, and the arrangements needed to do this.  It builds on our existing collaborative work to establish more robust mutual accountability and break down barriers between our separate organisations. The key elements of our governance handbook are:

  • How we make decisions - a summary of our approach
  • Functions and decisions map 
  • Scheme of reservation and delegation
  • Financial scheme of delegation
  • Operational scheme of delegation
  • Standing financial instructions
  • Terms of reference for ICB committees

Governance policies

Our governance policies can be found on the corporate policies page.

Accountability

The integrated board is formally accountable to NHS England.  NHS England will carry out an annual assessment of the board’s performance and will publish a report summarising its assessment. NHS England has powers to intervene if it is satisfied that the ICB is failing to discharge any of its functions.

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  • Submit an information request

  • Comments, concerns and complaints

  • NHS continuing healthcare

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