Consultation document: regulatory fees for integrated care system assessments

Integrated care systems

Integrated care systems are partnerships of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up health and care services to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area.

Each integrated care system is made up of 2 key elements:

• integrated care board: a statutory body responsible for planning NHS services, including ambulances, primary care, mental healthcare, hospital (acute), community and specialist care.
• integrated care partnership: a statutory committee made up of a number of smaller bodies. It has a broader focus, covering public health, social care and wider issues impacting the health and wellbeing of their local populations.

Our new assessments aim to understand how integrated care systems are improving outcomes for people and tackling health and care inequalities. We have published our legal duties and the Secretary of State’s objective and priorities for this work. We will consider how services are working together within an integrated care system, as well as how systems are performing overall.