Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 49789

Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs

Tabled: 1 May 2025
Answered: 12 May 2025

Question

Daisy Cooper

Liberal DemocratSt Albans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS on the capacity of ICBs to cut their running costs.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services, and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structures, to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running co...

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