The Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Partnership Assembly (ICPA) is a statutory joint committee, bringing together the NHS and local authorities as equal partners to focus more widely on health, public health and social care.
The Partnership Assembly includes representatives from NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Herefordshire Council, Worcestershire County Council and other partners across the two counties such as District Councils, NHS providers, public health, social care, housing services, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
It will focus on the wider determinants of health, including housing, education and leisure, and will be responsible for developing an integrated care strategy which will set out how the wider health needs of the local population will be met. Re-affirming the system objectives and ambitions, Health and well-being strategies and place delivery partnership priorities across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.