{"id":361554,"date":"2026-04-03T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:13:07","slug":"what-will-the-norfolk-and-suffolk-nhs-integrated-care-board-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361554\/","title":{"rendered":"What will the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS integrated care board mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Garret said he believed patients would “notice a difference”.<\/p>\n

He said a big focus would be on rebuilding three hospitals in the area – projects at the West Suffolk Hospital<\/a> in Bury St Edmunds, James Paget Hospital<\/a> in Gorleston and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital<\/a> in King’s Lynn, have previously been announced. <\/p>\n

Having a single ICB across Norfolk and Suffolk will help improve the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, according to Dr Garret. <\/p>\n

The mental health provider has been criticised by patient groups and health inspectors for failings over several years.<\/p>\n

A report last year<\/a> from the Care Quality Commission rated it as “requires improvement”, although inspectors noted improvements had been made.<\/p>\n

Dr Garret said access to GPs, dentists and pharmacists was a “big priority” for the new ICB and that would be where the biggest difference would be noticed by patients.<\/p>\n

Emergency departments at hospitals and response times for ambulances are other areas the new boss highlighted as services to focus on. <\/p>\n

He said assessments on the quality of services would be made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Garret said he believed patients would “notice a difference”. He said a big focus would be on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-361554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}