Key points

• The Department for Health and Social Care has released guidance for:

1. the preparation of integrated care strategies by integrated care partnerships
2. health and wellbeing boards and how they will work with and within integrated care systems
3. principles for integrated care partnership engagement with adult social care providers
4. principles for integrated care partnership engagement with health overview and scrutiny committees.

• NHS England has released guidance on developing the joint forward plan, to support integrated care boards and their partner trusts to develop their first 5-year joint forward plans.
• Integrated care partnerships may wish to publish an initial interim strategy by December 2022 if they want to align and influence integrated care boards' first five-year joint forward plans.
• Integrated care boards (ICBs) and their partner trusts are required to prepare a joint forward plan before the start of each financial year, and share the final version with their integrated care partnership (ICP) all relevant health and wellbeing boards (HWBs), and NHS England.
• The NHS Confederation has worked closely with The Department for Health and Social Care, NHS England and the Local Government Association in the development of these publications and provided opportunities for our members to feedback their views on what these documents should achieve. We are pleased to see members' feedback reflected in the guidance.

Updated information on the strategy

Source:

NHS Confederation