Publication scheme

Strategy and performance information, plans, assessments, inspections and reviews

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB Constitution

The Constitution sets out the arrangements made by NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board to meet its responsibilities for commissioning care for the people for whom it is responsible. It describes the governing principles, rules and procedures that the Board will establish to ensure probity and accountability in the day to day running of the organisation; to ensure that decisions are taken in an open and transparent way and that the interests of patients and the public remain central to the goals of the Board.

Annual Report

Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB has now been established for our first financial year, which runs from 1 July 2022 to 31 March 2023, inclusive. All NHS organisations are required by law to publish annual reports, detailing financial accounts, and to present them in public at an Annual General Meeting (AGM). The final annual report is also submitted to NHS England after internal sign-off. Our annual report and accounts for this financial year are available on our webiste. The purpose of this document is to look back at our key achievements, work areas and finances over our first year as a statutory body, as well as plans and priorities for the coming year and beyond.

Annual Business Plan, Strategic Direction and Documents

• Integrated Plan
• Plan on a Page
• Operational Plan

Performance Targets (KPI's) + Performance Framework

For Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB Performance Framework please go to our Board papers. Add Link when available

Clinical Governance

The ICB’s clinical governance is located on the website..

Care Quality Commission - Annual Check Results

The independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, who make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve.

Details of inspections on services and providers commissioned by Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB are available on the CQC website.

Audit Reports

For our audit reports see attached link to our Board papers: Add Link to website

Service User Survey

Information about user surveys and consultations is contained on our website and can be linked from Get involved> Public Consultations.

Governing Body Meetings

This page provides information on our public meetings of the Governing Body, including future dates, attendance guidance and previous Board meeting papers and minutes.

Equality and Diversity

Promoting equality and equity are at the heart of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB’s values – ensuring that the organisation exercises fairness in all that it does and that no community or group is left behind in the improvements that will be made to health outcomes across the country.

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB will continue to work internally, and in partnership with colleagues within the Department of Health and the wider NHS, to ensure that advancing equality and diversity is central to how it conducts its business as an organisation.

• Equality and Diversity Policy located on website under add link to policy

Safeguarding Children & Vulnerable Adults

Under the Health & Social Care Act 2012, NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB is, from 1st of July 2022, statutorily responsible for ensuring that Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB and organisations, from which we commission services, provide a safe system that safeguards children and vulnerable adults. This includes specific responsibilities for looked after children and for supporting the Child Death Overview Process.

• Our Safeguarding Policy for Children
• Our Safeguarding Policy for Vulnerable Adults

Freedom of Information Performance

We expect to update this section quarterly with information about how we have performed when responding to Freedom of Information enquiries.