Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce greater transparency over how Integrated Care Systems will be (1) scrutinised, and (2) held to account, in relation to patient care.

NHS England will continue to transparently scrutinise and hold to account National Health Service organisations which form part of an integrated care system (ICS). Subject to the passage of the Health and Care Bill, NHS England will publish an updated Oversight Framework in 2022/23 that reflects the new statutory basis for integrated care boards (ICBs) and ICSs. The Bill will also place a new duty on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to review each ICBs’ provision of NHS care, public health, adult social care, the functions of the ICB, local authorities and CQC-registered providers for that provision and the system as a whole. ICBs will also be subject to transparency requirements, including the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, to allow patients and the public to hold their ICB to account.