North Yorkshire Council

 

North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board

 

18th July 2026

 

Humber & N Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Joint Capital Resource Use Plan 2025/26

 

Report of the N Yorkshire Place Director.

 

1.0       PURPOSE OF REPORT

 

1.1       To share with the Health & Wellbeing Board, the NHS Joint Capital Resource Use Plan for 2025/26, in line with the Health and Care Act 2022.

 

 

 

2.0       BACKGROUND (MANDATORY)     

 

2.1       This report outlines the purpose, structure, and importance of the NHS Joint Capital Resource Use Plan (JCRUP).

 

2.2       This detailed system capital plan has been approved by the ICB Board as part of the operational plan sign off and individual provider capital plans have been approved through their respective boards. 

 

2.3       The JCRUP sets the detailed plan out, in narrative form, our approach to system capital planning, our method of prioritisation, an overview of 24/25 major schemes and includes progress on the development of new business cases for 2025/26. It also sets out our approach to net zero, governance and decision making for sharing with our stakeholders and communities through publication on our website.

 

2.4       It has been approved by the ICB Board on the 19th June 2025.

 

 

3.0       DETAILED PRESENTATION OF THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE

 

3.1       The Joint Capital Resource Use Plan is a collaboratively developed document that details how NHS capital allocations and funding will be distributed and managed across organisations within our Integrated Care System. It ensures a coordinated and strategic approach to capital investment that supports clinical and critical system-wide priorities. It is a legally obligated document (Health and Care Act 2022) that Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and their partner NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts must:

 

3.2       Our ICB is using the model proforma recommended by NHS England which sets out the layout of the document and key requirements to include in each section.  Due to the extended timeframe for planning, for 2025/26 NHS England have set the deadline for sign off and publication on the ICB web site as 30th June 2025.

 

3.3       The JCRUP is the culmination of significant system working with the aim to:

·         Coordinate investment across organisations to avoid duplication and inefficiencies. This enables the matching of an annual funding round with multi-year programmes of work; working collaboratively to deliver some of the system major programmes that could not be achieved by individual organisations.

·         Ensure alignment between capital spending and service/key infrastructure needs with a system review of our major priorities.

·         Maximise value for money by prioritising high-impact projects.

·         Support long-term infrastructure planning, reduce backlog maintenance, and aid the shift from analogue to digital.

·         Comply with national NHS requirements for the use of national capital allocations

·         Demonstrate system-level governance, coordination and transparency of decision making.

·         Enable sustainability goals, including Net Zero carbon commitments.

 

3.4       The development and delivery of our JCRUP has involved:

 

·         ICB leadership team including estates, finance and commissioning leads

·         NHS provider leadership teams including estates, finance and operational leads

·         NHS England regional finance, performance and estates teams

·         National NHS England programme and finance teams in the sign off national capital programmes

 

 

4.0       ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS CONSIDERED

 

4.1       The plan has been developed through extensive consultation with NHS providers and NHS England, based on national and local priorities for capital investment.  This criterion has been based on the level of significant and high backlog maintenance in our system, the ability to utilise capital to improve constitutional NHS standards and to manage in year critical infrastructure issues

 

 

5.0       IMPACT ON OTHER SERVICES/ORGANISATIONS

 

5.1       The plan includes information regarding the level of capital investment in each NHS organisation during 2025/26. 

 

 

6.0       FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

 

6.1       From a Humber and North Yorkshire perspective the plan is £217.8m with a further £19.6m set aside by NHS England for constitutional standards.  As this is subject to individual business case sign off this was a note in the operational capital plan at submission rather than included in our total capital envelope.

 

 

7.0       LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

 

7.1       This sets out the approval to commit capital spend in year on the specific schemes agreed and approved by the ICB Board and NHS England.

 

 

8.0       EQUALITIES IMPLICATIONS

 

8.1       n/a

 

 

9.0       CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

 

9.1       The JRUP includes information regarding the NHS system approach to moving towards net zero and the use of capital as a catalyst to achieve this.

 

 

 

10.0     REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

 

10.1     Under the NHS Act there is a requirement to share the plan with the Health and Wellbeing Board.

 

 

 

 

11.0

RECOMMENDATION

 

 

The Health & Wellbeing Board is asked to note the NHS Joint Capital Resource Use Plan for 2025/26, approved at the ICB Board 19th June 2025

 

 

 

            APPENDICES:

 

            Appendix A – HNY ICB Joint Capital Resource Use Plan for 2025/26

             

 

 

 

Report Author – Mark Bradley, NY Place Director

Presenter of Report – Mark Bradley