Our NHS

The principal customer for the Match+ Digital Platform in the United Kingdom is the NHS, or specifically each of its four national NHS systems (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

The primary customers with the NHS are the approximately 65 strategic commissioning bodies (e.g., in England the Integrated Care Systems of ICSs, with analogous bodies in other nations) across the four nations. Each of these strategic commissioning bodies has responsibility for managing and funding the provision of secondary care within their assigned geographic regions. These regions vary in geographic (and population size (500,000 – 3 million patients).

Integrated Care Systems
ICSs

NHS England
Performance manages and supports the NHS bodies working with and through the ICS
Care Quality Commission
Independently reviews
and rates the iCS
Statutory ICS
ICB
Integrated Care Board
Membership
Independent chair; non-executive directors; members selected from nominations made by NHS trusts/foundation trusts, local authorites, general practice; an individual with expertise and knowledge of mental illness
Role
Allocates NHS budget and comissions services; produces five-year system plan for health services
Cross-body membership, influence and alignment
ICP
Integrated Care Partnership
Membership
Representatives from local authorities, iCB, Healthwatch and other partners
Role
Planning to meet wider health, public health and social care needs; develops and leads integrated care strategy but does not commission services
Influence
Influence
Partnership and delivery structures
Geographical footprint
Name
Participating organisations
System
System population between 0.5-3.0 million
Provider collaboratives
AHS trusts (incluting acute, seecialist and mental heath) land as ancrotriate voluntary. Community and social enterprise (VCSE) organizations and the independent sector; can also operate at place level
Place
Usuaity covers a copulation of 250-500k
Health and wellbeing boards
ICS, Healthwatch, local authorities, and wider membership as appropriate; can also operate at system level
Place-based partnerships
Can include ICB members, local authorities, VCSE organisations, NHS trusts (including acute, mental health and community services), Healthwatch and primary care
Neighbourhood
Usuaity covers a copulation of 30-50k
Primary care networks
General practice, community pharmacy, dentistry, opticians

Map of ICS areas in England

North East and Yorkshire
  • Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System
  • South Yorkshire Integrated Care System
  • West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
North West
  1. Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System
  2. Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership
  3. Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System
East of England
  1. Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System
  2. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System
  3. Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System
  4. Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System
  5. Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System
  6. Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System
Midlands
  1. Better Lives Lincolnshire
  2. Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System
  3. Black Country Integrated Care System
  4. Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System
  5. Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System
  6. Joined Up Care Derbyshire
  7. Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System
  8. Northamptonshire Integrated Care System
  9. Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System
  10. Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System
  11. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System
London
  1. North Central London Integrated Care System
  2. North East London Health and Care Partnership
  3. North West London Integrated Care System
  4. South East London Integrated Care System
  5. South West London Integrated Care System
South West
  1. Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Together
  2. Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System
  3. Healthier Together: BNSSG Integrated Care System
  4. One Devon
  5. Our Dorset Health and Care System
  6. One Gloucestershire
  7. Somerset Integrated Care System
South East
  1. Frimley Health and Care
  2. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System
  3. Kent and Medway Integrated Care System
  4. Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System
  5. Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership
  6. Sussex Integrated Care System

Private sector
(non-NHS)

The private sector provides a significant level of healthcare (either self-paid by patient or by insurers) in the United Kingdom:
11.4%
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on total healthcare
8%
NHS expends about 8% of its budget on healthcare delivered on its behalf in the private sector
21%
Funded independently of the state, via self-payment or insurance
Comparative Health Spending
Total, Government/Compulsory, and Voluntary spending as percentage of 2022 GDP.