NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
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"Planning and improving NHS services across Lancashire and South Cumbria"
About NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans NHS services across the region, including primary care and community pharmacy, and joins up health and care services. It oversees NHS spending and service quality while working to improve health and wellbeing and deliver fair access and outcomes for people in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Its community-centred approach focuses on prevention, healthier communities and care closer to home, supported by coordinated health, social care and voluntary-sector partners. This matters in a population of nearly 1.8 million where deprivation, lower healthy life expectancy and unequal access contribute to wide differences in health and wellbeing.
How teams are organised
The ICB’s published operating model sets out five portfolios: commissioning, clinical, finance and resources, strategy and planning, and corporate. It describes multidisciplinary and matrix teams, connecting professional expertise across functions to support the organisation’s commissioning responsibilities.
Clinical input into commissioning
The model places clinical and care professional leadership at system, local NHS footprint and neighbourhood levels. It also provides for pharmacy, optometry and dental advisory roles to inform primary care commissioning, linking professional knowledge with decisions about services and pathways.
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