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The NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board became a statutory organisation on 1 July 2022.

The Integrated Care Partnership is a joint Committee of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the four local Councils and is called the BLMK Health and Care Partnership. It is co-chaired by local authority elected members, Cllr Khtija Malik and Cllr Martin Towler and the deputy chair is Manjeet Gill, the interim ICB Chair. The Health and Care Partnership has core members from NHS organisations, councils, GPs, Healthwatch and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.

The BLMK Health and Care Partnership meetings are held in public. It also holds workshops and seminars on issues that affect our system partners.

Integrated Care Strategy

The Health and Care Partnership is responsible for the development and agreement of the Integrated Care Strategy for Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, based on place-based strategies and population health information.

Health and Care Partnership Members

Integrated Care Board:

  • Manjeet Gill, interim Independent Chair, NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board
  • Felicity Cox, Chief Executive, NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board

Councils:

  • Cllr Martin Towler, Bedford Borough Council (Co-Chair)
  • Cllr Khtija Malik, Luton Borough Council (Co-Chair)
  • Kate Walker, Bedford Borough Council
  • Tom Wootton, Elected Mayor and Leader, Bedford Borough Council
  • Cllr Mark Smith, Central Bedfordshire Council
  • Marcel Coiffait, Central Bedfordshire Council
  • Andy Sharp, Central Bedfordshire Council
  • Cllr Hazel Simmons, Luton Borough Council
  • Cllr Basit Mahmood, Luton Borough Council
  • Cllr Peter Marland, Milton Keynes City Council
  • Cllr Donna Fuller, Milton Keynes City Council
  • Cllr Jane Carr, Milton Keynes City Council
  • Cllr Angela MacPherson, Buckinghamshire Council
  • Vicky Head, Director of Public Health, Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
  • Elizabeth Elliott / Nicola Ainsworth, Interim Joint Directors of Public Health, Luton

Acute hospital trusts:

  • Richard Sumray, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Heidi Travis, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Community services, mental health and ambulance service providers:

  • Lynda Thomas, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
  • Amanda Rowlatt, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Eileen Taylor, East London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Simon Chase, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
  • Volker Kellermann, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care Networks:

  • Vacancy, Bedford Borough Primary Care Network
  • Vacancy, Central Bedfordshire Primary Care Network
  • Manraj Barhey, Luton Primary Care Network
  • Navaneetha Rammohan, Milton Keynes Primary Care Network

Healthwatch:

  • Emma Freda, Healthwatch Bedford Borough
  • Diana Blackmun, Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
  • Philip Turner, Healthwatch Luton
  • Tracy Keech, Healthwatch Milton Keynes

VCSE:

  • Caroline Cook, BLMK ICB VCSE Strategy Group
  • Caroline Faulkner, BLMK ICB VCSE Strategy Group

Health and Care Partnership Meetings

Members of the public may attend meetings held in public and submit questions to the Partnership in advance of meetings at the discretion of the Chair. If you would like to ask a question, please submit three working days in advance of the meeting by emailing blmkicb.corporatesec@nhs.net.

Agendas and papers for all meetings held in public will be available five working days before the meeting.

Future Meetings

23 September 2025

Previous Meetings

14 February 2025 – download papers

19 September 2024 – download papers

14 March 2024 – download papers

31 October 2023 – download papers

7 March 2023 – download papers

14 December 2022 – download papers

21 September 2022- download papers

4 July 2022 – download papers

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