The Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB constitution

Composition of the Board of the ICB

2.1 Background

2.1.1 This part of the Constitution describes the membership of the ICB. Further information about the criteria for the roles and how they are appointed is in Section 3.

2.1.2 Further information about the individuals who fulfil these roles can be found on our website.

2.1.3 In accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 1B to the 2006 Act, the membership of the ICB (referred to in this Constitution as ‘the board’ and members of the ICB are referred to as ‘board members’) consists of:

  1. a Chair
  2. a Chief Executive 
  3. at least three Ordinary Members.

2.1.4 The membership of the ICB (the board) shall meet as a unitary board and shall be collectively accountable for the performance of the ICB’s functions.

2.1.5 NHS England Policy requires the ICB to appoint the following additional Ordinary Members:

  1. three Executive Members, namely:
    • Director of Finance – hereafter referred to as the Chief Finance Officer
    • Medical Director
    • Director of Nursing
  2. At least two non-executive members.

2.1.6 The ordinary members include at least three members who will bring knowledge and a perspective from their sectors. These members (known as Partner Members) are nominated by the following, and appointed in accordance with the procedures set out in Section 3 below:

  • NHS trusts and foundation trusts that provide services within the ICB’s area and are of a prescribed description
  • the primary medical services (general practice) providers within the area of the ICB and are of a prescribed description
  • the local authorities that are responsible for providing social care and whose area coincides with or includes the whole or any part of the ICB’s area.

While the partner members will bring knowledge and experience from their sector and will contribute the perspective of their sector to the decisions of the board, they are not to act as delegates of those sectors.

2.2 Board membership

2.2.1 The ICB has eight Partner Members:

  1. Three members nominated jointly by the NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts that - (i) provide services for the purposes of the health service within the integrated care board’s area, and (ii) are of a prescribed description found at paragraph 3.5.2
  2. Three members nominated jointly by persons who - (i) provide primary medical services for the purposes of the health service within the integrated care board’s area, and (ii) are of a prescribed description found at paragraph 3.6.2.
  3. Two members nominated jointly by the local authorities whose areas coincide with, or include the whole or any part of, the integrated care board’s area.

2.2.2 The ICB has also appointed the following further Ordinary Members to the board:

  1. In addition to the non-executive roles referenced at paragraph 2.1.5(b) above, two further non-executive director posts have been appointed to this Board.

2.2.3 The board is therefore composed of the following members:

  1. Chair
  2. Chief Executive
  3. three Partner Member(s) NHS trusts and foundation trusts
  4. three Partner Member(s) primary medical services
  5. two Partner Member(s) local authorities
  6. four Non-executive Members
  7. VCFSE Alliance (please refer to paragraph 3.12 below)
  8. Chief Finance Officer
  9. Medical Director
  10. Director of Nursing

2.2.4 The Chair will exercise their function to approve the appointment of the Ordinary Members with a view to ensuring that at least one of the Ordinary Members will have knowledge and experience in connection with services relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

2.2.5 The board will keep under review the skills, knowledge and experience that it considers necessary for members of the board to possess (when taken together) for the board effectively to carry out its functions and will take such steps as it considers necessary to address or mitigate any shortcoming. 

2.3    Regular participants and observers at board meetings

2.3.1 The board may invite specified individuals to be Participants or Observers at its meetings to inform its decision-making and the discharge of its functions as it sees fit.

2.3.2 Participants will receive advanced copies of the notice, agenda and papers for board meetings. They may be invited to attend any or all of the board meetings, or part(s) of a meeting by the Chair. Any such person may be invited, at the discretion of the Chair, to ask questions and address the meeting but may not vote.

  1. Director of Digital Transformation
  2. Chief People Officer
  3. Director of Strategy
  4. Director of Performance
  5. Director of Operations
  6. Director of Primary Care Transformation
  7. Managing Director of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Luton Information, Communications, Technology (HBLICT)
  8. Board Secretariat

2.3.3 Observers will receive advanced copies of the notice, agenda and papers for board meetings. They may be invited to attend any or all of the board meetings, or part(s) of a meeting by the Chair. Any such person may not address the meeting and may not vote.

2.3.4 Participants and/or observers may be asked to leave the meeting by the Chair in the event that the board passes a resolution to exclude the public as per the standing orders.