‌NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB carried out a review exploring the option of aligning the place-based partnerships to the four local authority boundaries to promote and enable deeper integration and collaboration with health and social care in order to improve population health, hospital flow and discharges into the community.

This morning, the board of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria made a decision based on a paper setting out recommendations following the review. The paper can be found online in the ICB board papers.

The role of place-based partnerships is integral to the future of the Lancashire and South Cumbria system achieving a collaborative approach to health inequalities and the wider determinants of health for our communities throughout the life course.

Please find below a link to a full stakeholder briefing regarding the review and the decision made. Alongside this update is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) which aims to give colleagues and stakeholders answers to queries they may have.

Place boundary announcement

FAQs place-boundary decision