Welcome to HTN's ICS Index

Here, HTN track the latest news and updates from each Integrated Care System (ICS), through this channel. 

We’ll bring you insights into data and digital strategies as they develop, provide you with the latest news and updates, and speak with leaders from each ICS to help share their approach and learnings. 

You’ll be able to view the latest news, be informed on HTN events related to ICSs, view each ICS by region – and we’ll also pick out some key headline news for you. 

Latest

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICS notes plans and actions for cyber security

One Gloucestershire’s first ICS data strategy focuses on integrated care, enterprise architecture, workforce data capabilities, and data quality

NHS Sussex ICS highlights digital architecture, data flows, EPR landscape and transfer of care hubs

DHSC seeks feedback on emerging ideas for change and NHS App

North Central London ICB digital diagnostics 5-year strategy focuses on digital workflows, data flows, and the potential for AI

ICB framework focuses on Advice and Guidance maturity level, use and quality

Digital and data across ICS regions: Midlands

Picks

Panel discussion: Putting Lord Darzi’s report into action: a digital focus to drive change

Digital and data across ICS regions: Midlands

NHS England board discuss EPR coverage, digital maturity, and tech and digital investment

Health Tech Awards 2025 launched!

Panel discussion: what does the future of general practice core systems look like?

NHS transformation executive team announced to lead transition into DHSC

Digital ICS

Panel discussion: Digital in supporting NHS reform, modernising services, shifting from hospital to community, and supporting the move from reactive to proactive care

Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care 2025?

AI framework for the London health and care system outlines governance, responsibilities, proof of concept, monitoring

HTN Now panel discussion: Go-live best practices, key learnings and challenges

ICS Index

Here we share the latest news from each ICS – and we’ll continue to update this page going forward! You can also click on the name of the ICS below to visit their website. 

North East and Yorkshire

Humber, Coast and Vale

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB awards digital mental health tech contract

South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub announces £500,000 of funding for seven innovative projects

Virtual ward in Hull to introduce AI tech to identify trends

South Yorkshire ICS publishes data and insights strategy for 2024-2026, sharing plans for data platform and alliance

NHS Humber Health Partnership launches Flow project designed to evaluate and streamline patient journey

North East and North Cumbria

West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership

North East and North Cumbria ICB reports on progress made in digitising social care

Innovate UK Launchpad programme offers a share of £500k in funding for innovation in West Yorkshire

HTN Now: Embedding a benefits framework, creating an engaged and positive project culture at North Cumbria Integrated Care

West Yorkshire ICB appoints new chief digital and information officer

North Cumbria Integrated Care launches 2024-2029 strategy, highlighting need to increase digital connectivity

App to help manage care and coordinate interventions to be piloted in West Yorkshire

North East and North Cumbria ICS pledges to adopt analytics-driven approach in draft innovation strategy

North East and North Cumbria opens engagement for gamified scenario based cyber security exercise

North West

Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB highlights potential of tech in empowering patients in Access Improvement Plan

Greater Manchester shared care record to be shared with 60+ pharmacies

Cheshire and Merseyside ICS deploys Cynerio’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Platform across 17 trusts

NHS Greater Manchester Board shares update on primary care blueprint, including digital telephony and access

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s plan to improve mental health services highlights data as “key enabler”

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside report explores how system working can support outcomes for children and young people

Lancashire and South Cumbria

North Lancashire and South Cumbria pilots AI and teledermoscopy tech

Lancashire and South Cumbria report highlights shared digital approach for trusts and data work to tackle inequalities

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB’s virtual citizen panel to help shape services

The Midlands

Coventry and Warwickshire

Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies launches chatbot and mental health app

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB and Herefordshire Council share £2.2 million opportunity for Tech Enabled Care Service

Coventry and Warwickshire ICS on tackling health inequalities through virtual hub

£10k in funding available for innovations impacting patient care in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Coventry and Warwickshire ICS shares data on length of stay and waiting list reductions

Joined up care Derbyshire

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

Derbyshire ICB highlights “changing role” of analysts and opportunities for data

University Hospitals of Leicester virtual wards connects with Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphedema Centres

Open opportunity for advice and training to tackle digital exclusion in North East Derbyshire

Re-wiring hospitals, data-sharing and remote monitoring feature in strategy from University Hospitals of Leicester

Lincolnshire

Live Healthy Live Happy Birmingham and Solihull

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announces preferred EPR supplier

Proposed mental health plans from Birmingham and Solihull ICB highlight digital as “major vehicle for change”

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board launches women’s health app

Digital means to support engagement methods in Birmingham and Solihull psychosis study

Video game launched to boost recruitment for pharmacy roles at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole and Hull University Teaching Hospitals

Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Northampton General Hospital signs 10-year contract for deployment of cloud-based EPR

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS shares insight into primary-secondary interface work

Digital as an enabler in NHS Northamptonshire ICB’s Five-Year Joint Forward Plan 2023-28

Nottingham University Hospitals experiences critical IT incident; returns to business as usual

Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin

The Black Country

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust rolls out paediatric vitals electronic system

Black Country ICB opens opportunity for virtual ward platform covering primary, secondary care

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Board highlights EPR rollout, shared care records, and remote monitoring

171 Black Country GP practices update websites to support patient access

Together we're better - Staffordshire and Stoke-onTrent

System-wide approach to cyber security highlighted by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB

East of England

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Research and innovation hub in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes seeks applications for £15,000 awards for local innovators

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ICS shared care record shares five key mental health documents

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT 2024-2029 maternity strategy highlights EPR plans for 2025

Hertfordshire and West Essex

Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership

Hertfordshire SEND Improvement Plan highlights developments in data and dashboards to prioritise services

Increase in patients using online self-referral services across NHS Mid and South Essex ICS

Mid and South Essex ICB board highlight digital and data in supporting total triage, whole system stewardship, modern general practice, resilience, and more

Norfolk and Waveney Health and Care Partnership

Suffolk and North East Essex

Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospital Collaborative awards contract for IT audit and asset register

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust shares £300k opportunity for remote patient monitoring system

South West

Our Dorset

Somerset

NHS Dorset board assurance framework explores risk around digital maturity

Somerset ICS digital, data and technology strategy aims to build movement for change

University Hospitals Dorset appoints new chief digital officer

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Health and Care Partnership

NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB awards patient management system contract

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICS notes plans and actions for cyber security

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB highlights progress on patient empowerment, engagement and inclusion

Teledermatology service supporting waiting list reductions in Cornwall

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

One Gloucestershire

HTN’s interview series: North East London ICB, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, and more

News in brief: anxiety app for children in Gloucestershire, mental health support website in Portsmouth, ‘DadPad’ app in Coventry, and more

Interview: “To be able to predict and understand where we’ll get the best impact for people is gold” Deborah El-Sayed, director of transformation and CDIO at BNSSG ICB

One Gloucestershire’s first ICS data strategy focuses on integrated care, enterprise architecture, workforce data capabilities, and data quality

NHS Gloucestershire ICB exploring continuing healthcare digital system

Together for Devon

Telehealth provider chosen for digital prehab trial in Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset

Primary care access recovery plan in Devon: £19 million digital savings, “good” progress, and tackling variation

2026 go-lives set for “joint Devon EPR”

South East

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

Kent and Medway

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare awards £102,000 deal for solution to support Talking Therapies

NHS Kent and Medway opens procurement for £2m cancer information system

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS plans patient engagement portal procurement

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West

Frimley Health and Care

£71.2 million investment in digital infrastructure approved at Buckinghamshire Healthcare

NHS Frimley ICB awards contract for digital social prescribing platform

Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership

Sussex Health and Care Partnership

Two primary care innovation projects selected for Surrey Heartlands ICB test bed programme

NHS Sussex ICS highlights digital architecture, data flows, EPR landscape and transfer of care hubs

Surrey Heartlands ICB opens early engagement for digital patient engagement and inbound communication workflows

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust announces new chief digital and data officer

London

North Central London Partners in Health and Care

North East London Health and Care Partnership

North Central London ICB digital diagnostics 5-year strategy focuses on digital workflows, data flows, and the potential for AI

AI tech to identify and target patients with long term conditions to save unplanned bed days in North East London

North Central London ICB awards Kooth Digital Health online counselling and support service contract

North West London

Our Healthier South East London

North West London ICS board highlights cyber resilience, primary care tech, integrated neighbourhood teams

NHS England shares impact on appointments and procedures for South East London cyber attack

North West London ICS on how digital underpins plans for integrated neighbourhood teams

South West London Health and Care Partnership

The role of digital in NHS South West London ICB’s board updates on winter planning, urgent and emergency care, and progress around the Board Assurance Framework

South West London ICSs digital strategy for 2025-2028: infrastructure, integrating systems, AI framework, data strategy, and innovation

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