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Impact assessment

Health Bill: ICBs as strategic commissioners - equality impact assessment

Outlines the approach to assessing equality impacts of empowering integrated care boards (ICBs) as strategic commissioners as part of the Health Bill.

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
  • other equality impact assessments
  • fact sheets

Updates to this page

Published 14 May 2026
Last updated 9 September 2026 Show all updates
  1. Updated to include the assessment of transferring the responsibility for commissioning sexual assault and abuse services, as part of health and justice services, from NHS England to integrated care boards.

  2. First published.

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Update history

2026-09-09 16:45
Updated to include the assessment of transferring the responsibility for commissioning sexual assault and abuse services, as part of health and justice services, from NHS England to integrated care boards.

2026-05-14 16:10
First published.