Phase · Phase 2 implementation · INT model showcased by NHS England
Programme lead · NNHIP local programme lead · NENC ICB
Funding · Wave 1 backed by £10M nationally (~£230K avg/site)
Stockton's Integrated Neighbourhood Team approach was published by NHS England as a worked case study, alongside Tyneside, in the neighbourhood-approach examples cycle.
How it landed. It put the INT footprint into the public record, in language the other forty-two pioneer ICBs can cite without asking permission. The local conversation now has a national reference point.
Sovereign Meridian's Round 1 reading of Stockton ships Wednesday 13 May. Reads the INT showcase against the wider Wave 1 picture and asks why nobody is yet capturing the outcome data the Wave 1 evaluation will turn on.
How it landed. Frames a specific operational suggestion: cohort capture (EQ-5D-5L plus PAM, on Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect, no PII to RiDraw) piloted at one Stockton INT footprint as a four-week Snapshot, bound A5 outcome book to the ICB board.
INT model is the strategic anchor. Combined Authority alignment with health is genuine.
River Tees corridor; freeport reconfiguring industrial geography; town centres in regeneration.
Estuary and brownfield ecological context. Ribbon of green infrastructure.
Industrial air quality legacy + hydrogen / decom transitions = mixed signal. New monitoring needed.
Tees Valley Combined Authority + ICB + LA: strong governance triangle, mature relationships.
Every NNHIP site has, by NHS design, two dominant commissioner seats. Stockton-on-Tees names both.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. Holds A&E presentation patterns, occupational respiratory load from the chemical-industries belt, and the social-work duty across Tees Valley industrial transition.
Stockton Health (GP federation) + NENC ICB Place Director (Stockton). Holds the registered list, the 2032 trajectory against industrial-transition demographics, and the BCF + ICB + LA pooled-budget conversation.
| ● | Footprint | INTs designed; multiple live |
| ● | Multi-disciplinary team | Multi-partner team active |
| ◐ | Pooled BCF | Pooling intent stated |
| ◐ | Evidence published | Showcased: public outcome figures pending |
| ● | Accountable officer | ICB + Combined Authority pair |
| 4/5 | Total (scored 2026-04-27) | |
Format · Bound A5 landscape outcome book (Aberdeen Sketchbook format)
This briefing is public. The publication is weekly. Issue 002 ships Wednesday 20 May 2026 with the Workforce Health Bridge field reading on Hillingdon and Heathrow.