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Involvement Strategy

Development

As we began greater collaborative working arrangements, we worked together with involvement leads across the ICB during 2022 to develop stronger partnership arrangements. Through this partnership work, we held conversations with our stakeholders to understand what has worked well for involvement, what could work better, and in an ideal world, how the ICB can deliver excellence through involvement across the North East and North Cumbria.

This information was used to develop the principles, aspirations, and framework for involvement for the ICB. This framework has been built upon conversations with our stakeholders, and a shared commitment to continue to involve patients, public, carers, and wider stakeholders in shaping, evaluating, and improving the services we commission. Please click here to find out more about this research. 

Our Involvement Strategy

We want people and communities to help shape the work we do.  That includes helping us to create our involvement strategy.

In 2022, we asked people for their thoughts about involvement. We created our first ICB involvement strategy around what we heard.

In 2024, we wanted to update the strategy. We worked with Healthwatch to ask people for their thoughts. We wrote a draft strategy and asked people what they thought. We wanted to know if we got it right. We included this feedback in our Involving People and Communities strategy 2024-28. We:

  • Made the strategy shorter
  • made it easier to read
  • replaced the original principles with:
    • Involving people meaningfully
    • Removing barriers
    • Listening to feedback
  • Developed a workplan. The workplan included more detail on how we will achieve our priorities. It also included detail on how we will measure success.

Links to our strategies and workplans.

Links to the feedback which helped us to develop our strategies.

Contact Details

For more information about involvement in the ICB, email: necsu.icb.involvement@nhs.net

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