The Black Country Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) is a statutory committee jointly formed between the NHS Integrated Care Board, the four councils in the Black Country, Police, Fire, Education and Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCSFE) organisations.

These members have been meeting regularly to improve the care, health, and wellbeing of the population. They discuss how to:

  • improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
  • tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
  • enhance productivity and value for money
  • help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Integrated Care Strategy

The ICP has refreshed its integrated care strategy on how to meet the health and wellbeing needs of the population in the Black Country. This new strategy builds on the initial strategy which we published in March 2023 and sets out a strong ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population focusing on three strategic priorities, Prosperity, Population Health and Prevention of illness.

The strategy which is available to download below, builds on and complements the work of the Health and Wellbeing Boards in each area, but looks at the few things we can do by working together across the whole Black Country.

The Partnership will hold partners to account for playing their part (including the Integrated Care Board and Local Authorities as statutory members of the ICP) in delivering the strategy and improving the health and wellbeing of our population.

Following the development of an Integrated Care Strategy, in August 2023, the ICP Prevention and Personalisation Strategic Forum was formed.

The ICP Prevention and Personalisation Strategic Forum has a remit to:

  • develop collaborative working arrangements under the oversight of the ICP
  • define how our broader prevention and personalisation work will support delivery of the Integrated Care Strategy.

In February 2024, the ICP Board gave the ICP Prevention and Personalisation Strategic Forum a mandate to coproduce a strategic framework.

Our Partnership Committee

Our Partnership Committee meets every three months (quarterly) and core members are drawn from the NHS Integrated Care Board, the four councils in the Black Country, Police, Fire, and Education and Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCSFE) organisations.

Meet our partnership committee members

Since our formation in July 2022, we've held five development forums to establish how our Integrated Care Partnership will work moving forward, and develop our strategy. Find notes from each committee below: