ICB Network

• • NHS Leaders Forum: chairs and chief executives from across NHS trusts, ICBs, community CICs and primary care collaboratives. Meets twice yearly with all system leaders invited. Meets twice yearly in sector-specific groups – e.g. NHS trust chairs and chief executives only.
  • NHS Digital Leadership Forum: digital and innovation leaders at board level across trusts and ICBs; digital primary care senior leaders; board-level non-statutory members providing NHS funded patient care. Meets quarterly.
  • NHS Communications Forum: directors of communications and engagement across trusts, ICBs and other parts of the system; other senior communications leads. Meets quarterly.
  • NHS Quality and Safety Forum: series of webinars for board-level leaders on key issues relating to quality and safety.
  • NHS Work and Health Forum: broad ICB membership including ICB work and health leads, strategy and workforce leads and chairs. Non-ICB membership includes NHS trusts, local/strategic authorities, DWP, VCSE and national colleagues  Currently monthly.
  • EDI Directors Forum: directors, associate directors and high-level strategic leads for EDI or health inequalities within NHS organisations
  • Neighbourhood Leads Forum: primary care, acute, community, mental health and ICB neighbourhood health leads who are responsible for making neighbourhood working a reality at place and system.
  • Elective and Outpatient Reform Forum: NHS trusts, community trusts, primary care and neighbourhood ICB; anyone involved with outpatient pathway redesign. Meets quarterly.
  • Urgent and Emergency Care Forum: anyone involved in UEC pathway redesign and operational delivery; meets quarterly.
  • BME Leadership Network: black and minority ethnic leaders, aspiring leaders and allies from across the NHS. We convene network members through our three annual in-person events: our anti-racism conference in April, network lunch at NHS ConfedExpo in June and our Black History Month event in October.
  • Health and Care LGBTQ+ Leadership Network: LGBTQ+ leaders, aspiring leaders and allies from across the NHS. We convene members every quarter via virtual meetings and annually for our in-person networking session at NHS ConfedExpo.
  • Health and Care Women Leaders Network: women working at all levels across health and care. We convene members several times a year via mix of in-person and virtual events including our quarterly fireside chats, annual conference and International Women’s Day celebrations.
  • NHS Disability Leadership Network: new network.
  • Learning Disabilities Forum: members who provide or commission services for people with a learning disability; meets quarterly.

Strategic Commissioning Forum

Chaired by Hannah Iqbal, chief strategic, digital and transformation officer at Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB, and Sarah Mansuralli, chief strategy and population health officer for North Central London ICB, the forum brings together directors of commissioning, strategy, and population health from across the health and care landscape to move towards the new vision of strategic commissioning.

Each monthly meeting is focused on a step within the strategic commissioning cycle, and brings together key speakers, examples of good practice, key insight from system partners, and opportunities for peer learning to support you to move to strategic commissioning. Sign up for the Strategic Commissioning Forum.