North East London Integrated Care Board

NHS North East London is the name of our Integrated Care Board – the organisation that replaced NEL Clinical Commissioning Group on 1 July 2022. It is responsible for planning and commissioning health services across north east London and is accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together.

North east London has a growing population of over two million people and is a vibrant, diverse and distinctive area of London steeped in history and culture. The Integrated Care Partnership for north east London is a new formal alliance of partners with a role in improving the health and wellbeing of their residents.

Their core purpose is to ensure that the population of north east London are healthy and thriving, with good levels of mental wellbeing, and have good access to high quality health and care services that wrap around the individual, and ensure the best possible outcomes.

Their four priorities, or joint action areas are:

1. Employment and workforce – to work together to create meaningful work opportunities and employment for people in north east London now and in the future.
2. Long term conditions – to support everyone living with a long-term condition in north east London to live a longer, healthier life and to work to prevent conditions occurring for other members of our community
3. Children and young people – to make north east London the best place to grow up, through early support when it is needed and the delivery of accessible and responsive services.
4. Mental health – to transform accessibility to, experience of and outcomes from mental health services and well-being support for the people of north east London.

NHS North East London now has seven places (City and Hackney, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest), aligned to each boroughs, with City and Hackney working together. Plans for these places are continuing to develop.