{"id":175336,"date":"2025-10-02T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:44:07","slug":"important-step-in-creation-of-new-nhs-care-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175336\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Important step&#8217; in creation of new NHS care board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The creation of a new NHS integrated care board covering about 2.5m people has moved closer, with two existing bodies set to partially merge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Integrated care boards decide how to spend the NHS budget in the areas they cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire &amp; West Berkshire Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) has absorbed East Berkshire in a move towards the creation of a Thames Valley ICB, which is expected to happen on 1 April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new &#8220;clustering&#8221; agreement between BOB ICB and Frimley ICB &#8211; which had previously been responsible for East Berkshire &#8211; began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The restructuring comes after the government told integrated care boards across the country to reduce their running costs by 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The creation of a new NHS integrated care board covering about 2.5m people has moved closer, with two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175336","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}