North east London has a growing population of over two million people and is a vibrant, diverse and distinctive area of London steeped in history and culture.
As an integrated care board (ICB), we are responsible for deciding how the local healthcare budget of nearly £4 billion is spent to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity for everyone living in north east London.
We work with and for the people of north east London to make sure that they are healthy and thriving, with good levels of mental wellbeing, and good access to high-quality health and care services.
We do this through planning and commissioning health services across eight local authority areas and making sure all parts of the local health system work effectively together. By bringing together health partners, local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, alongside residents and service users, we work to improve how we plan and deliver care and support services.
We set strategies, policies and plans where these are best done at the scale of the whole of north east London. We also set the overall financial strategy for the local health system and make sure that everyone can get core services in an appropriate setting.
We serve the population of north east London across the following eight local authority areas:
We were formed on 1 July 2022 following the Health and Care Act 2022. Our Board, headed by our Chair Marie Gabriel CBE, is responsible for making sure that any decisions we make are made openly, transparently and in line with our stated purpose, values and priorities.
Find our how we are embedding equality and inclusion into everything that we do.
