Since the commencement of the integrated care board (ICB) and integrated care partnership (ICP) across Kent and Medway in 2022, the decision was taken to place the emphasis of system leadership for health and wellbeing in the ICP and for the scope of the Kent’s Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) to be limited solely to its statutory functions. The ICP, covering all of Kent and Medway, came to be seen as the key multiagency strategic forum in the area.