ICB Five-Year Joint Forward Plan now published | Primary care latest updates

We are pleased to introduce the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Five-Year Joint Forward Plan.

As an integrated care system of health and care partners, we have a shared vision to work better together to make Northamptonshire a place where people are active, confident and empowered to take responsibility for good health and wellbeing, with quality integrated support and services available for them when they need help.

As part of this NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is striving to achieve four aims: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; to tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; to enhance productivity and value for money; and to help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Like many areas across the country, we are seeking to do this within a challenging economic and financial context, while we also face significant continuing demand for all our services. We know that through shared working and community involvement, we have the best opportunity to respond to these challenges.

Our ICB Plan links directly with the Northamptonshire Integrated Care Partnership ‘Live Your Best Life’ Strategy, published earlier in 2023, and also with the Health and Wellbeing Board Strategies for North and West Northamptonshire.

The plan explains how we will help deliver many of the ambitions outlined in the ICP Live Your Best Life Strategy, while rising to the challenges the NHS faces across the country.

It is just the start of a process of working together as health, care and public sector organisations, and with the communities we serve, to achieve our shared vision.

The plan is the first publication of a five-year plan which we will review, engage upon and develop on an annual basis throughout that period.

In doing this it is critical that we listen to our county’s communities and ensure their voices are heard as we continue to develop the activity set out in the ICB Plan.

We will engage with a wide range of communities, audiences and stakeholders to co-produce our activity during the ICB Plan period, guided by the principles set out in our ICN Community Engagement Framework 2022-25 [pdf] 519KB. 

This robust plan of engagement will be ongoing to make sure meaningful conversations take place on what matters most to our communities – engaging with our communities and those with lived experience will support us to better understand services and support them.

Alongside this, we will develop action plans to drive delivery and measure our success through agreed outcomes, metrics and key performance indicators. These will be working plans which continue to evolve and are kept under review.

Download the NHS Northamptonshire ICB Five-Year Joint Forward Plan 2023-28[pdf] 8MB