The Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) met for the last time on 4 March 2026, marking the end of a body that has overseen health and care strategy across Norfolk since 2022.

The change is driven by national NHS rules requiring that each Integrated Care Board (ICB) must have one matching partnership covering the same area. As the ICB's boundaries are expanding to cover both Norfolk and Suffolk, a single new Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Partnership must replace the existing Norfolk-only body.

The new partnership must be formally established by 1 April 2026, with Norfolk County Council, Suffolk County Council, and the new Norfolk and Suffolk ICB as its statutory partners. Officers from both counties are currently working out how the new partnership will be structured, who will sit on it, and how it will operate.

Chair Councillor Fran Whymark told members that the Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board — a separate statutory committee of Norfolk County Council — will continue to meet unchanged and is unaffected by this transition.

Reflecting on the partnership's four-year lifespan, Cllr Whymark highlighted the development of the Integrated Care Strategy, three system-wide conferences, and scrutiny of issues including NHS capital investment, winter planning, and the Right Care Right Person policing programme.

All partner organisations will receive further information about the practical changes to future meetings following the March session.