What landed across the field, in plain language.
It put the INT footprint into the public record, in language the other forty-two pioneer ICBs can cite without asking permission.
Read the Stockton brief →How Stockton-on-Tees stopped waiting for permission. Reads the INT showcase against the wider Wave 1 picture and asks why nobody is yet capturing the outcome data the evaluation will turn on.
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The 18–24 month gap between the current sovereignty vocabulary and the decisions that will be made against it is closing faster than most of us can read. Neighbourhood health is already happening and does not have a publication of record. James Wise, chairing the new Sovereign AI Unit, has named Scalable Healthcare and AI for All as two of the three biggest problems of the coming decades.
We do not need another strategy document. We need the work people are already doing to become visible to each other.
Read the full letter (7 min) →Six signals, one spotlight (the FDP crisis as the sovereign-compute question made visible), and a specific decision prompt if you are at an NNHIP site or a defence supplier.
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Four stakeholders. Four specific reasons. The full one-pager explains in five minutes what each persona sees, gets, and can do next.
Own work named in a publication of record · vocabulary for ICB conversations
Heathrow + Luton + Aberdeen read as one system · DCO community-benefit TIP chains
Your patch read alongside infrastructure · brand to rally around
External framing of your programme · Sovereignty Test open benchmark
All 43 UK neighbourhood health innovation and improvement programme pioneer sites · filterable by region, ICB, organisational form, and published indicators. The only public tracker of its kind.
| Region | Site | Pioneer signal |
|---|---|---|
| South West | Cornwall & Isles of Scilly | 16 Integrated Neighbourhood Teams · 230,000 people reached |
| West Midlands | Birmingham & Solihull | 11 operational teams live · published leader |
| East Midlands | Nottingham City PBP | 7.8M GP appointments 2024 · avoidable deaths 2× England average in some neighbourhoods |