Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Partnership (ICP)

Role of the Suffolk and North East Essex ICP

The role of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) in Suffolk and North East Essex is to:

• be a forum to build on the joint positive working between all partners in Suffolk and North East Essex ICS across the NHS, local authorities and VCFSE sector with partners coming together under a distributed leadership model and committing to working together equally.
• use a collective model of decision-making that seeks to find consensus between system partners and make decisions based on unanimity as the norm, including working though difficult issues where appropriate.
• agree arrangements for transparency and local accountability, including meeting in public with minutes and papers available online.
• champion co-production and inclusiveness throughout the ICS.
• hear the voices of those with lived experience including those experiencing disadvantage and marginalisation so that they inform strategic thinking and planning
• sign off the strategic intent for the health and social care system including the development of the integrated care strategy underpinned by outcome based approaches that ensure a focus on improving outcomes for people, including improved health and wellbeing, supporting people to live more independent lives, and reduced health inequalities.
• facilitate ‘Thinking Differently Together’ across the ICS through a range of collective mechanisms and initiatives accessible to all stakeholders
• oversee integration between the NHS, local government (social care and public health) and VCSE sector (including conversations about shared budgets and investment)
• support the triple aim (better health for everyone, better care for all and efficient use of NHS resources), the legal duties on statutory bodies to co-operate and the principle of subsidiarity (that decision-making should happen at the most local appropriate level)
• ensure place-based partnership arrangements are supported, and have appropriate resource, capacity and autonomy to address community priorities, in line with the principle of subsidiarity.
• drive the delivery of a shift of resources into prevention developing a clear view on the contribution of the health and social care system into prevention and the determinants of health
• draw on the experience and expertise of professional, clinical, political and community leaders and promote strong clinical and professional system leadership.
• hear the voices of those on the frontline so that they inform strategic thinking and planning
• operate a collective model of accountability, where partners hold each other mutually accountable for their shared and individual organisational contributions to shared objectives.
• hold one another collectively accountable in our role as “anchor institutions”
• support the work of the health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) and contribute to their work with broader partners on the wider determinants of health
• create a learning system, sharing evidence and insight across and beyond the ICS, crossing organisational and professional boundaries.
• own the collective brand and identity of the Suffolk and North East Essex.