Our Strategies and Plans

Our mission is to create a vibrant, healthy and inclusive community for all our residents. This page includes our strategic vision and the strategies and plans we are implementing to achieve that vision.

Five Year Plan

The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB Five Year Plan, published on 1 April 2026, sets out how we will improve health and care for the 509,200 people living across our diverse rural and urban communities. It outlines the challenges our population faces, the changes we need to make, and how we will work with partners to deliver better, more joined‑up and sustainable services.

Building on our Joint Forward Plan and the ambitions of the NHS 10 Year Plan for England, the Five Year Plan explains how we will improve health and wellbeing across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin over the next five years. It sets out:

• the key health challenges in our communities
• five major changes we will deliver
• our commissioning intentions and how they will be delivered
• how we will work with partners to improve coordination of care
• how we will improve access, quality and financial sustainability.

The plan and its commissioning intentions have been developed by clinicians, commissioners and other specialists working together to turn local needs and evidence into clear actions and priorities.

Integrated Care Strategy

The Integrated Care Strategy, produced by the Integrated Care Partnership, focuses on creating a seamless healthcare experience for patients by fostering collaboration among various health and social care providers. This strategy aims to improve patient outcomes through coordinated care, ensuring that services are accessible and tailored to the unique needs of our population. The Integrated Care Strategy was refreshed and approved by the Integrated Care Partnership in October 2024.

Joint Forward Plan

The Joint Forward Plan is a rolling 5-year system plan created to deliver the Integrated Care Strategy.

The Joint Forward Plan focusses on the delivery of the Integrated Care Strategy and sets the systems ambitions for delivery against the strategy.

The Joint Forward Plan focusses on the following areas:

• Person centred care.
• Place, neighbourhoods and collaboration.
• Improving access to services – General Practice, Dentistry, Elective and Diagnostics, Urgent and Emergency Care, and Cancer.
• Clinical transformation priorities – Hospital Transformation, Diabetes, CVD, Musculoskeletal (MSK), Mental Health, Children and Young. People, Healthy Ageing and Frailty, and End of Life.
• Enablers – Finance, Digital, Workforce and Estates.

The Place plans are key to the delivery of the system strategy and are articulated in the Joint Forward Plan and delivered through the place partnership committees. For 2025/26, the Joint Forward Plan will focus on the foundations for delivering on prevention, the shift from acute services to community and from analogue to digital.

You can also read our Joint Forward Plan Summary. 

Click on the headings below to view other strategies and strategic plans.