Under the Health and Care Act 2022, 42 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) were established on 1 July 2022. Each ICB has a constitution setting out the board membership and governance arrangements for the organisation. As required by the Act, Clinical Commissioning Groups, working with designate ICB leaders, engaged with key local stakeholders in developing the constitutions for each ICB before proposing them to NHS England. NHS England brought the ICB constitution into effect through the order that established ICBs on 1 July 2022.
Each ICB’s supplementary governance documents (for example; details of committees it is establishing) are made available on the relevant ICB website when live. You can find out more on the NHS England website.
Following submission of our ICB constitution to NHS England in January and April 2025, our constitution was approved in May 2025.
How we developed our constitution
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.
- West Yorkshire draft Integrated Care Board constitution (PDF)
- West Yorkshire draft Integrated Care Board constitution (accessible, text-only Microsoft Word version, to download)
- Summary plain text version of the draft Integrated Care Board Constitution
- Summary of the draft Integrated Care Board Constitution (Easy Read web page)
- Summary of the draft Integrated Care Board Constitution (Easy Read, PDF)
- West Yorkshire draft Integrated Care Board Constitution (BSL video)
- Download the draft constitution involvement report (Word document)
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, VCSE organisations and Healthwatch partners in our local places. To help enable this, we have a constitution.
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
To support the constitution, there is a governance handbook [LINK to handbook when produced}. 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.