The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) is a statutory joint committee which brings together the key partners in the health and care system in South Yorkshire.

All upcoming and previous meetings held in public can be found here.

Thursday 23 January 2025

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) will hold its next meeting in public on Thursday 23 January 2025. The time and location will be confirmed soon.

Members of the public are invited to attend both virtually and in person. 

Register To Attend

To register for attendance in person please email syicb.boardmeetings@nhs.net by 12 noon on Monday 19 January 2025.

To request the link to attend virtually, please contact syicb.boardmeetings@nhs.net by 12 noon on Monday 19 January 2025.

Submit A Question

We welcome questions from the public and ask them to be submitted in writing before the meeting to syicb.communications@nhs.net to ensure these are answered fully. Please do so by noon on Monday 19 January 2025.

We kindly ask that questions be relevant to the meeting agenda. The responses will be published on the website no later than 14 working days after the meeting.  

Questions not relevant to the meeting agenda can still be sent through and these will be answered in line with the Freedom of Information Act or through the Press Office.   

 

Future meetings in public

Thursday 23 January 2025

Thursday 20 March 2025

Previous meetings

Thursday 28 November 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Thursday 28 November 2024 in the Boardroom at Sovereign House, Heavens Walk, Doncaster DN4 5DJ.

Watch a recording of the meeting here.

Below is the answer to the question from the public at the 28 November 2024 Integrated Care Partnership meeting:

Question 1: Alex Reeks, Business Manager at Upperthorpe Medical Centre, Sheffield, said the report from the ICB on the Darzi report, while covering many of the pertinent points excludes one of Lord Darzis key findings which was: The only sustainable solution to congestion in acute hospitals, for example, is to build up the capacity, capability, infrastructure and technology base of care that is delivered in the community, including general practice, community services, and mental health services. By keeping people well for longer, they are less likely to need hospital treatment.

Should the ICP request that the report be amended to include this key point?

Alex said his practice has demonstrated to the ICB:

  1. How our systems can be adapted to reduce the risk of missed diagnosis - stopping the problem and getting patients into care processes quicker
  2. How our data sets can be used to identify patients who already have a missed diagnosis to get them into prevention or treatment programmes to keep them well longer
  3. How our data sets can be used to identify patients at risk of diabetes, CVD, dialysis and falls, to prioritise assessment to get them into prevention or care processes to keep them well longer.
  4. General Practice league tables for A&E presentation reductions so we can learn from the best and engage with those performing less well
  5. General Practice league tables for A&E admissions so we can learn from the best and engage with those performing less well

He said their work has good clinical support at the ICB but slow or lacking managerial support. Should the ICP encourage the ICB to understand these opportunities before developing a response and contributing to a NEY ICB response to the 10 year plan?

At the last two ICB board meetings, Alex said 0 minutes have been afforded to General Practice. General practice forms part of ‘the only sustainable solution’ to congestion in acute hospitals according to Lord Darzi, Should the ICP encourage the ICB to give general practice and specifically the opportunities identified in question 2 more focus moving forward?

Answer 1: At the meeting the three questions were taken as a whole. It was clarified that what had been discussed at the meeting of the ICB Board on 6 November 2024 was not NHS South Yorkshire’s response to the Change NHS engagement, but the process the ICB would follow in its response. The initial analysis report provided information on the ICBs local involvement approach, which will consider all aspects of the Lord Darzi report, including primary care and community services.

The Board paper that has already been published and presented to a past ICB Board meeting could not be amended. However, as NHS South Yorkshire’s engagement response had not yet been submitted, the discussion at the Integrated Care Partnership would influence the final response. NHS South Yorkshire will produce a written response and this will be published in January 2025 ahead of our next ICB Board.

We very much agree that primary care has an absolutely critical part to play in achieving the changes needed. Primary care, including general practice, is a key priority for the ICB. The ICB has a primary care partner and Executive Lead on the Board membership and receives timely feedback, updates and items for decision relating to primary care. The ICB works closely with South Yorkshire Primary Care Alliance on key priorities and developments to ensure opportunities are identified for improving health services in our communities.

The ICB held a strategy event with health leaders on 19 November 2024, which included GP voices and the Primary Care Alliance, and part of the focus of that was developing the response to the consultation. A further event will be convened in February 2025 to include wider primary care colleagues, and include dentistry, optometry, community pharmacy and the VCSE sector.

In addition, we agreed that the points made on date and digital were important and that a South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase event had taken place on Monday 18 November 2024 with some really good examples of technology tools to support clinical decision making, such as in cancer. We agree that digital in the context of primary care is absolutely critical.

We do regularly discuss Primary Care at ICB Board meetings, examples include Primary Care Capital Development Programme, POD Delegation and assurance and the PCN Pilot Programme. South Yorkshire has four of the 22 primary care networks selected as pilots to test changes to the GP operating model. We will be testing new approaches and new models that may benefit wider primary care. Gavin Boyle, Chief Executive of NHS South Yorkshire, offered to meet with Mr Reeks to further discuss primary care’s importance in the three priority shifts set out by the Government. We also report Primary Care indicators through the integrated performance report.

The ICB is a key partner within the Integrated Care Partnership and is undertaking some local involvement work with the public, staff and wider stakeholders where feedback and views of our local communities will be considered and fed into future plans for South Yorkshire. As an ICP board we would encourage all residents and partners across South Yorkshire to also take part in the current NHS Change consultation which will influence the future of NHS services in the Government’s 10-year Health plan. The 10-year plan is expected to be published in May 2025.

Tuesday 15 October 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 1:00pm.  The meeting took place at SYMCA, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield, S1 2BQ.

Watch a recording of the October 2024 meeting here.

Wednesday 25 July 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a private Development Session on Wednesday 25 July 2024. 

 

Wednesday 29 May 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Wednesday 29 May 2024 at 9:30am. The meeting took place both virtually and in person at the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield, S1 2BQ.

Members of the public were welcome to attend both virtually and in person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

Thursday 21 March 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Thursday 21 March 2024 at 9:30am. The meeting took place both virtually and in person at the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield, S1 2BQ.

Members of the public were welcome to attend both virtually and in person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

Thursday 25 January 2024

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Thursday 25 January 2024 at 9:30am. The meeting took place both virtually and in person at the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield, S1 2BQ.

Members of the public were welcome to attend both virtually and in person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

Thursday 30 November 2023

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 9:30am.  The meeting took place both virtually and in person at the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield, S1 2BQ.

Members of the public are welcome to attend both virtually and in person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

Wednesday 27 September 2023

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Wednesday 27 September 2023.  The meeting took place both virtually and in-person at the Council Chamber Doncaster, Civic Office, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU between 1:30pm - 3:30pm.

Members of the public are welcome to attend both virtually and in-person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

Thursday 27 July 2023

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Thursday 27 July 22023. The meeting took place both virtually and in-person at the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street, Sheffield, S1 2BQ between 9:30am – 10:30am.

Members of the public were welcomed to attend both virtually and in-person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

No questions were submitted by the public.

Tuesday 23 May 2023

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Tuesday 23 May 2023. The meeting took place both virtually and in-person at South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Office, 11 Broad Street, Sheffield, S1 2BQ, between 1:30pm – 3:00pm.

Members of the public were welcomed to attend both virtually and in-person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

No questions were submitted by the public.

Friday 24 March 2023

The South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a meeting in public on Friday 24 March 2023. The meeting took place both virtually and in-person at Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1QY, between 9:30am – 10:30am.

Members of the public were welcomed to attend both virtually and in-person. 

Please find a recording of the meeting here.

No questions were submitted by the public.

Tuesday 20 December 2022

A recording of the meeting can be found here.

We welcomed questions from the public and asked that they are submitted prior to the meeting in writing to helloworkingtogether@nhs.net to ensure these were answered fully. We kindly asked that questions were relevant to the meeting agenda. The responses will be published on the website no later than 14 working days after the meeting.

Questions not relevant to the meeting agenda can still be sent through and these will be answered in line with the Freedom of Information Act or through the Press Office.

  Question  
Q1

I would be very interested to know if there are any plans to recognise dementia as a specific priority area for the ICP, and whether there are any plans for a dementia specific steering group for the ICP?
A1

We recognise that dementia affects people and their families living in South Yorkshire and that it can be incredibly challenging.  We know from refreshing our South Yorkshire population health needs assessment that the estimated dementia diagnosis rate in South Yorkshire is similar to England and better in some places. We also know that the percentage of people aged 65 and over with a formal recorded diagnosis of dementia is generally better than England. Partners will build on this and ensure work continues in each place to improve access and the quality of services and support in every place through existing forums that focus on dementia. This approach will be support by the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership.

 

Friday 28 October 2022

We welcomed questions from the public and asked that they are submitted prior to the meeting in writing to helloworkingtogether@nhs.net to ensure these were answered fully. We kindly asked that questions were relevant to the meeting agenda. The responses will be published on the website no later than 14 working days after the meeting.

Questions not relevant to the meeting agenda can still be sent through and these will be answered in line with the Freedom of Information Act or through the Press Office.

  Question  
Q1

Dr Rupert Suckling has been in touch and confirmed the direct relationship between structural racism and racial health inequalities.

 

Given that the racism identified by Professor Gus John Doncaster Races 1079 Cherie on Top 1082 have never been properly addressed in Doncaster, I respectfully seek the necessary assurance of a commitment by this partnership of the need to apply an actively anti racist lens to addressing Core20Plus5 NHS England » Core20PLUS5 – An approach to reducing health inequalities and to ensure that there is a psychological safe space for interested black citizens like myself to have their meaningful say on the health inequalities that matters to them, especially in the context of Ethnic Health Inequalities in the UK - NHS - Race and Health ObservatoryNHS – Race and Health Observatory.

 

As a parent, I along with my family should not be subjected to years of racism and micro aggressions for advocating for a NHS and Social Care system that is diverse, inclusive and fair.
A1

At the heart of our role as a new Integrated Care Partnership is our commitment to listen and act on the experience and views of local people and communities. This includes supporting people and communities to sustain and improve their health and wellbeing, as well as involving people and communities in developing plans and priorities, and continually improving services. Hearing from people of all backgrounds from across South Yorkshire will be essential to help us build on the strengths of those communities to tackle health inequalities and the other challenges faced by our health and care system. The ICP will commit to ensure application of the actively anti-racist lens to address the Core20Plus5.

If you would like to speak to someone at NHS South Yorkshire about the issues you have raised, Anthony Fitzgerald, who is the Executive Place Director for Doncaster would be happy to discuss. Anthony can be contacted by email at anthony.fitzgerald3@nhs.net. 
Q2

In its first meeting in public on 1st July 2022 the Integrated Care Board approved its

 “Start with People South Yorkshire (People and Communities) Strategy”.

It was made clear in the discussion prior to approval that the Start with People South Yorkshire Strategy is for the Integrated Care Board only.

The cover sheet introducing this agenda item stated:

“ This strategy is for the ICB not the ICP/ICS– building an engagement strategy for the partnership is a next step that will fully involve all partners from the outset.”

  • When will the ICP begin to work with partners to build an involvement strategy?
Will the ICP pro-actively involve the people it serves in this strategy?
A2

We will shortly start to work with partners to develop an involvement strategy for the ICP and we will pro-actively involve our citizens in the development of this strategy.

Q3

In preparing the SY Integrated Care Strategy:

  • Why is the Integrated Care Partnership not following the law – as quoted in a) below?
  • Why is the Integrated Care Partnership not following the mandate published by the 

secretary of state – as quoted in b) below?

  • Why is the Integrated Care Partnership not following the guidance issued by the secretary of state – as quoted in c) below?

a)    The Health and Care Act 2022 describes in Section 26, the duties of Integrated Care Partnerships, and in particular their duties regarding integrated care strategies:

 “116ZB Integrated Care Strategies

 (3) “In preparing a strategy under this section, an integrated care partnership must have regard to –

(a)   the mandate published by the Secretary of State under section 13A of the National Health Service Ac t 2006, and     

 (b)   any guidance issued by the Secretary of State”    

(4)  “In preparing a strategy under this section, an integrated care partnership must -

(a)   involve the Local Healthwatch organisations whose areas  coincide with, or fall

wholly or partly within its area, and

(b)   involve the people who live or work in that area”

 b) The mandate published by the Secretary of State says, on page 10 in the “Taking account of the views of patients and the public” section point 1.10 that:

 “Integrated Care Boards and NHS England will need to engage with patients, carers and the public as they discharge their functions, both in relation to clinical decisions (where patients and carers should be closely involved) and in wider commissioning decisions.”

c)  The Department of Health and Social Care published “Guidance on the preparation of integrated care strategies” on 29th July 2022 which:

  1. Repeats the legal  requirements quoted in a) above, on :
  • pages 5 and 6 under the section “Legal duties and  powers of the integrated care partnership”
  •  page 9 in the first sentence of the section “Involving people and organisations” 
  1. Outlines how inclusive this involvement should be on page 11 in the section

“People and communities” stating that it:

 “is not limited to pro-actively involving people with a range of lived experiences of accessing health and or social care or having a mental or physical condition; seldom heard voices, people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness; those who commissioners have a 

responsibility for,  but reside outside the area of the integrated care board and integrated care partnership, such as people providing unpaid care at a distance; or those receiving specialist services outside the integrated care partnership area.”
A3

The Integrated Care Partnership in South Yorkshire met for the first time in September 2022 and agreed that its initial focus will be on developing an Integrated Care Strategy for South Yorkshire.  It was agreed that this will build on the strategies and plans that are already in place, especially the Health and Wellbeing Strategies. 

Given the timeline set nationally to develop and publish our interim Integrated Care Strategy by December we will approach this by building on work to date and seeing this as the start of a journey to develop a Strategy for South Yorkshire that will be dynamic and evolve over time.

We want to make sure our work is informed by the views of patients and the public about what our ambitions and priorities should be for health and care in South Yorkshire, however we know many people will have already told us many views on this in lots of different forums, talking to lots of different organisations.

To avoid asking people the same thing and to inform our early work we started by gathering insight from the wide range of engagement activities that have been undertaken in South Yorkshire over the last few years by our ICP partners that are related to the areas expected to feature in the ICP strategy. The report from that independently analysed insight gathering, which heard from over 280 sources of information will shortly be published on the ICS website. 

Our initial insight gathering has given us a lot of information about what our citizens have told us about health, care and wellbeing over the last few years and has particularly shown us that giving people the information, support and skills and tools to better manage their own health and wellbeing is a really clear focus for them. We propose taking this theme and using it as the focus for the next stage of the involvement, which will take place over the month of November.

We want to ensure we reach out and engage so that the voice of all the key under-represented and socially excluded groups within South Yorkshire are heard and we will work with our partners in the VCSE sector and Healthwatch to help us to do this. We will work hard to ensure we hear from children and young people. We will empower our partners to work in innovative ways that work for their communities.

Given the significant changes that have happened in recent weeks and months we feel that also doing a broad exercise that gives a large number of people the opportunity to also respond to the question ‘What matters to you about your health and wellbeing’ should they wish to would also be beneficial. We will do this using the existing citizen and staff networks of all partners and using a social media campaign.

Our Healthwatch partners have been involved from the start of this process.