Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Integrated Care Partnerships Section 26: Integrated Care Partnerships and Strategies
This section amends the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 to account for the transition from CCGs to integrated care boards and makes relevant amendments to provide for the integrated care partnership and its integrated care strategy.
	Subsection (3) requires local authorities to share Joint Strategic Needs Assessments with the integrated care partnerships that overlap with the area of the local authority.
	Subsection (4) inserts new sections into the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 relating to integrated care partnerships and their strategies.
	Section 116ZA(1) requires the integrated care board and each local authority in the area of the integrated care board to establish an "integrated care partnership", which is a joint committee of these bodies. Under subsection (2), the partnership must include one member appointed by the integrated care board and one member appointed by each relevant local authority and any members appointed by the integrated care partnership itself. Under subsection (3), the integrated care partnership may determine its own procedures (including quorum).
	Section 116ZB(1) requires the integrated care partnership to prepare an "integrated care strategy". The strategy must detail how the needs of an area will be met by the exercise of functions of either the integrated care board in the area, NHS England, or the relevant local authorities. Under subsection (2) the strategy must consider how NHS bodies and local authorities could work together to meet these needs using section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 to make arrangements. In preparing this strategy the integrated care partnership must have regard to the NHS mandate and guidance published by the Secretary of State (subsection (3)) and involve the Local Healthwatch and people who live or work in the integrated care partnership’s area (subsection (4)). The strategy may also state how health-related services could be more closely integrated (subsection (5)).
	Under subsection (6), the integrated care partnership must consider revising its integrated care plan whenever it receives a new joint strategic needs assessment. Under subsection (7), the integrated care strategy must be published and shared with each responsible local authority, and the relevant integrated care board in that area.
	Section 26(5) of the Act inserts into section 116A of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 a requirement for local authorities and their partner integrated care boards, in response to an integrated care strategy, to prepare a "joint local health and wellbeing strategy" that sets out how the local authorities, integrated care board and NHS England will meet the assessed needs in that area. "Assessed needs", in relation to the area of a local authority, means the needs assessed in relation to its area under section 116.
	Section 26(6) of the Act substitutes section 116B and places a requirement for local authorities and integrated care boards to have regard to the joint strategic needs assessment, the integrated care strategy, and the joint local health and wellbeing strategy when exercising their functions (subsection (1)), and for NHS England to have regard to the above when exercising their functions related to the provision of health services in the area (subsection (2)).