Health Bill: ICBs as strategic commissioners - fact sheet
Outlines how integrated care boards (ICBs) will focus on their role as strategic commissioners of local health services.
Applies to England
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The Health Bill is supporting 2 overarching aims:
- improve patient safety and experience through a new single patient record (SPR), enabling joined-up, proactive care and empowering patients
- put power and resources in the hands of NHS organisations providing direct patient care by abolishing NHS England and stripping back national bureaucracy
See the Health Bill collection page for the bill’s other supporting documents:
- impact assessments
- equality impact assessments
- other fact sheets
Updates to this page
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Updated the 'Increasing the commissioning responsibilities of ICBs' section to include the estimated proportion of planned NHS healthcare commissioning budgets that ICBs will control in 2027 to 2028 under the reformed system.
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First published.
Update history
2026-06-01 14:00
Updated the ‘Increasing the commissioning responsibilities of ICBs’ section to include the estimated proportion of planned NHS healthcare commissioning budgets that ICBs will control in 2027 to 2028 under the reformed system.
2026-05-19 11:30
First published.