Integrated Care Partnership meetings

Meetings of the committee are in public with observers able to watch via a video link. 

Meeting details and papers will be published online.

ICP meeting dates and papers

Purpose of the joint committee

The purpose of the joint committee is to:

  • Produce an integrated care strategy, developed with system partners and stakeholders, which covers the needs of the whole population of Kent and Medway.
  • develop the strategy, develop a plan to address the broad health and social care needs of the population within Kent and Medway.
  • Align to the strategy, develop and agree a suite of corresponding outcome measures - based on robust data, intelligence, research and innovation - to improve the health and well-being of the population at large.
  • Seek on-going assurance in delivery of the strategy and associated outcome measures and, where required, agree actions to secure this assurance.
  • Support the bringing together of health and care partnerships and coalitions with community partners which are well-situated to act on the wider determinants of health in the local area.
  • Influence improvement in the wider determinants of health and broader social and economic development, in areas such as housing, climate, transport, sport and leisure, etc.

Non-voting participants

  • Medway Council Chief Executive
  • Kent County Council Head of Paid Service, or nominated representative
  • Kent and Medway ICB Chief Executive
  • Kent and Medway Directors of Public Health
  • Kent and Medway ICB Medical Director
  • A representative from each of Kent Healthwatch and Medway Heathwatch
  • A representative from the Kent and Medway Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Steering Group
  • Kent and Medway local authority directors of adult and children's social care.

Committee membership

Membership of the Joint Committee will be made up of elected, non-executive and clinical and professional members as follows:

  • Leader of Kent County Council (KCC)
  • Leader of Medway Council 
  • Chair of the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB)
  • Two additional local authority elected executive members from KCC, who hold an appropriate portfolio Committee membership responsibility related to Joint Committee business
  • Two additional local authority elected executive members from Medway Council, who hold an appropriate portfolio responsibility related to Joint Committee business
  • One additional ICB Non-Executive Director
  • An ICB Partner Member who can bring the perspective of primary care
  • The Chairs of the four Kent and Medway Health and Care Partnerships
  • An elected District Council representative from within the geographies of each of the four Kent and Medway Health and Care Partnerships