NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the statutory organisation responsible for buying and planning local health and care services for the three million people living across the counties of Surrey and Sussex.
The organisation was created on 1 April 2026 through the merger of NHS Surrey Heartlands and NHS Sussex, also incorporating the Surrey Heath, Farnham and Ash areas of Surrey which were previously part of NHS Frimley ICB.
As a strategic commissioner, we are responsible for setting a clear strategy for improving the health of our population, based on the needs of local people, and making sure that the way we spend our money has a direct impact on improving people’s health and in reducing the inequalities we know exist in how some people access and receive care and treatment.
Our unique role is to coordinate the allocation of resources, getting the best use of our population’s health budget by aligning funding and resources strategically with long-term population health outcomes. Importantly we have a responsibility to use our understanding of the local context to make sure that every pound spent is improving outcomes, tackling inequalities, delivering best value and building long-term health resilience for local communities, including the left shift (from treatment to prevention; from hospital to community; from analogue to digital) set out in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
We recognise that the three million people across Surrey and Sussex are the people we are here to serve – they are our families, our friends, our neighbours, our communities, our colleagues. And they will continue to be the reason we strive to improve care, to innovate, to design new pathways and transform health and care to enhance the outcomes for our populations.
In short, our ambition is to improve the health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and secure the best value for money from NHS services for the people and communities living in Surrey and Sussex in line with the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan.
More details on how we brought our two organisations together can be found on Forming the ICB.
Our geography
NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB covers the counties of Surrey and Sussex, with a total population of just over 3 million people, with a mixture of urban, rural and coastal areas.