The Board received a report of the Strategic Director – People, which requested approval of an amendment to contractual arrangements with the dissolution of Halton Clinical Commissioning Group and the transfer of arrangements to the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board.
The Health and Care Act 2022 required the dissolution of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and the implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), as of 1 July 2022. An ICS consisted of an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). An ICB was a statutory organisation that brought the NHS together locally to improve population health and establish shared strategic priorities.
Each local authority area within the Cheshire and Merseyside ICS was required to establish its own Place Based Partnership (PBP), locally this was One Halton. The report provided an update on the development of the One Halton PBP in its context with the Cheshire and Merseyside ICS.
RESOLVED: That the Board
1) note the update on One Halton; and
2) approves the amendment to contractual arrangements as set out in the report.