About the ICB

The Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning and overseeing how NHS money is spent to support our 1.7 million residents.

Our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality. We also work to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing of local people and reduce health inequalities across our area.

The ICB is responsible for planning and overseeing most of the health services used by people who live in Hertfordshire and west Essex. We hold the budgets for those NHS services and we make sure that care is high quality and that people get access to the services they need.

This includes essential services such as: 

• emergency and urgent care 
• GP services 
• most dental services 
• optometrist (optician) services 
• community nursing 
• mental health support 
• rehabilitative care 
• most planned hospital care 
• continuing healthcare, which is for adults and children with long-term complex physical or mental health needs.