Our System
Our Shared Ambitions and Aims
There is a long history of joint working in Lincolnshire between the Local Authority, the NHS, and wider partners. We have worked hard to build the relationships need to support the people of Lincolnshire to enjoy the highest quality health and wellbeing for themselves, their families, and their communities. We are pleased with the progress we have made and are confident we have developed the right principles and values to guide us.
However, we know that more needs to be done to give everyone the very best start and every chance to live a long and healthy life. We also know that to have the best chance of achieving this we need to think and work differently with each other and with our communities.
To help guide us in our work we have developed a shared ambition…..
For the people of Lincolnshire to have the best possible start in life, and be supported to live, age and die well.
Underpinning our ambition, we have defined four aims that set our strategic direction for the health and care system in Lincolnshire. These aims are:
- Have a focus on prevention and early intervention.
- Tackle inequalities and equity of service provision to meet population needs.
- Deliver transformational change in order to improve health and wellbeing.
- Take collective action on health and wellbeing across a range of organisations.
In Lincolnshire, the County Council shares the same geographical boundary as our integrated care board this area is the basis for our integrated care system and as such we are required to have both a Health and Wellbeing Board and Integrated Care Partnership. Each are required to publish its own strategy and our approach is to connect the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Integrated Care Strategy to avoid duplication or gaps. Each will maintain its own identity with:
The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy continues to focus on ‘the what’ i.e. the population health and wellbeing priority areas the health and care system will focus on based on the evidence in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA); and
The Integrated Care Partnership Strategy sets out ‘the how’ i.e. the key enablers the health and care system will focus integration efforts on to support delivery of the JHWS and its priorities, and the system’s overarching ambition and aims.
We encourage you to adopt and use both strategies in whatever way you can to further improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Lincolnshire.
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Cllr Sue Woolley Chair of the Lincolnshire Health & Wellbeing Board and Integrated Care Partnership |
John Turner Vice Chair of the Lincolnshire Health & Wellbeing Board and Integrated Care Partnership |
Overview of the Health and Care System in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the Health and Wellbeing Board for Lincolnshire was established to act as a forum in which those who are responsible for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of local populations and communities, can do so in a joined up effective way.
As a formal committee of the county council, the Health and Wellbeing Board for Lincolnshire includes representatives from Lincolnshire County Council, NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), local NHS Providers, Police and Crime Commissioner, District Councils, Healthwatch Lincolnshire, Higher Education, Local Enterprise Partnership, Care Sector and NHS England.
The functions of the Health and Wellbeing Board for Lincolnshire are:
- to encourage persons who arrange for the provision of any health and social care services in the area to work in an integrated manner;
- to provide such advice, assistance or other support as it thinks appropriate for the purpose of encouraging joint commissioning;
- to prepare and publish a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA);
- to prepare and publish a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy aims to inform and influence decisions about the commissioning and delivery of health and care services in Lincolnshire, so that they are focused on the needs of the people who use them and tackle the factors that affect everyone’s health and wellbeing.
Lincolnshire Integrated Care Partnership
The Health and Care Act 2022 formally established Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in England from July 2022 comprising two statutory bodies exercising statutory functions:
- Integrated Care Board
- An Integrated Care Partnership (ICP)
The Lincolnshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) is a joint committee of Lincolnshire County Council and NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), and includes representatives from the District Councils in Lincolnshire, NHS provider organisations, Healthwatch Lincolnshire, voluntary and community sector, higher education, Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Lincolnshire Police, Care Sector and NHS England.
The Lincolnshire ICP is the forum for the organisations that make up the Lincolnshire Integrated Care System (ICS), known as ‘Better Lives Lincolnshire’, to come together as equal partners to plan actions in support of the delivery of integrated health and care, and overall ambition and aims of the system.
