NHS Integrated Care Board area
This guide helps families understand how NHS planning, Continuing Healthcare, community nursing, discharge support, and regulated home care can fit together across North West.
Get a Free AssessmentNHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board is the NHS route for Continuing Healthcare decisions across this area. CHC is separate from ordinary council-funded social care and depends on primary health need.
Hospital discharge planning usually involves NHS discharge teams, community health services, local authority reablement, and family decisions about safe care at home.
Community nursing and therapy services are arranged through local NHS pathways; Care Near Me can help families compare regulated care providers alongside that clinical support.
For palliative or end-of-life care, the ICB area may involve GPs, community nursing, hospices, and specialist teams. Care Near Me helps with regulated home care options where extra practical support is needed.
Local councils remain responsible for most adult social care assessments and means-tested support. NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board is involved where NHS commissioning, discharge, community services, or health-funded pathways apply.
Care Near Me is not an NHS provider and does not make funding decisions. We help families compare CQC-registered care providers and prepare the practical questions to ask local NHS or council teams.