Dear GP colleagues,
I am delighted to inform you that NHS North East London – our new Integrated Care Board – formally launched today (Friday 1 July), replacing North East London Clinical Commissioning Group as part of the changes brought about by the Health and Care Act 2022.
This is a really exciting time as we cement the strong partnership working we have already developed with other organisations across our local health and care system, as part of the North East London Health and Care Partnership – our Integrated Care System.
We and all our partners are committed to working together to achieve our collective ambition of working with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity.
Below is an overview of the role, ambition and leadership structure for our new organisation, including an update on the clinical leadership and the appointment of Dr Jagan John and Dr Mark Rickets to the Board of NHS North East London. They and all of you will continue to be a really important part of the heath and care system in north east London as we know that your clinical expertise, knowledge and experience is essential to enabling us to provide the high standard of services that our population deserves.
If you want to find out more about the work of NHS North East London, please do visit our newly launched website – www.northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk
I look forward to continuing to work together with our partners and all the people of north east London to ensure our local population are healthy and thriving.
Best wishes,
Zina
Zina Etheridge
Chief Executive Officer
NHS North East London
Role of NHS North East London
NHS North East London 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.
We set the overall strategy that will guide our collective work and hold the wider system to account for how services are delivered in a more joined up way. We do this by bringing together health partners, local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, with residents, patients, and service users to improve how we plan and deliver care and support services.
Our ambition and priorities
The core purpose of North East London Health and Care Partnership, which NHS North East London is a part of, 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.
Our agreed partnership ambition is that “We will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity.”
To help guide our work, together we have agreed four priorities, or joint action areas, where we want to create measurable change, which will create key outcomes for NHS North East London and place-based strategies. These are:
- Employment and workforce – to work together to create meaningful work opportunities and employment for people in north east London now and in the future.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Find out more about North East London Health and Care Partnership on its website.
Leadership of NHS North East London
NHS North East London is led by our Chair, Marie Gabriel CBE, and Zina Etheridge as Chief Executive Officer. In recent months Zina and Marie have been recruiting to the Executive Leadership Team and the Board of NHS North East London, which includes Dr Jagan John and Dr Mark Rickets as primary care representatives. Find out more about the membership on our website.
Please note that the GP Chair roles ended on 30 June and the new Board will take on decision making responsibilities for NHS North East London. The GPs in clinical lead positions are continuing in those roles until December 2022 and clinical directors are being appointed over the coming weeks.