Explain
Integrated care board (ICB)
An integrated care board (ICB) is the NHS body that plans and pays for most local health services. For EHC plans it is usually the "responsible commissioning body" for health. The council must tell it when it is considering an assessment, and it must arrange the health care provision in Section G of a plan. Complaints about its services go through the NHS complaints process, and then to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
Older letters and plans may name a clinical commissioning group, the kind of body ICBs replaced.
- Type of rule
- Law (Act or Regulations)
- Rule id
integrated_care_board- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 42(4)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 42(3)Law (Act or Regulations)
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 4(2)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 53(5)Law (Act or Regulations)
Related
- Section G (health care provision)
- Designated clinical or medical officer (DCO or DMO)
- Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)
- Health and social care recommendations (extended appeals)
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