The Integrated Care Board (ICB), Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) and Dorset Council have established a joint committee in accordance with section 116ZA of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 to be known as the Dorset Integrated Care Partnership (ICP).

Councillor Millie Earl, BCP Council

Joint Integrated Partnership Chair

Having been born and lived most of her life in the ward she represents, Millie found herself interested in politics through seeing and experiencing social problems and inequality in her own community, particularly in access to education, housing, and public services.

Before being appointed into a leadership role in the council, she built a successful career in marketing and campaign management in the private sector and with charities. Alongside her work, Millie founded a number of local projects to address key problems in her own community including a community food project that saves food from going to waste by redistributing it to the community, a local recycling initiative and a community association to attract funding and drive positive outcomes in her neighbourhood.

In her role as Leader of BCP Council, Millie takes a strategic approach to making the Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole area a great place to live, work and invest, and her key goal is unlocking the full potential of the three towns through place-based regeneration, cross-sector collaboration and sustainable growth.

Millie leads the ‘Three Towns Alliance’ which, over the last 18 months in administration, has: stabilised the council’s finances and restored good governance as evidenced by the removal of a ‘Best Value Notice’ from government; transformed children’s services from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ (one of only a handful to make this leap in progress); effectively eradicated the use of B&Bs for families experiencing homelessness; submitted a new and ambitious Local Plan to examination and; won awards for innovation in apprenticeships, community partnerships, leisure services, cultural events and tourism.

Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council is a large urban unitary authority council on the south coast of England, that rivals major UK cities in its economic assets, destination qualities and potential for growth. 500,000 people are dependent on the BCP Economy. There are three universities, an international airport and harbour port, premier league football, 14 miles of sandy beaches and 15,375 businesses contributing £12.35bn in GVA with strong key sectors that include:

  • Advanced engineering & manufacturing (aeronautics and marine)
  • Culture, creative and digital technology
  • Financial services, fintech & insurance
  • Health, wellbeing & social care and
  • Tourism, retail & hospitality

Councillor Nick Ireland, Dorset Council

Joint Integrated Partnership Chair

Originally from Liverpool, Nick has a master’s degree in software engineering from Imperial College and still works in the software industry.

As a Dorset Councillor he represents Crossways Ward and is the Leader of both the Liberal Democrat Group and Dorset Council. He successfully proposed the Declaration of a Climate Emergency at the inaugural meeting of Dorset Council in 2019 and subsequently the Declaration of a Nature Emergency in 2024. His cabinet portfolio includes responsibility for climate and environment.

As well as being a Dorset LNP board member, he also sits on the boards of Great South West and NHS Dorset.

Nick has recently taken up the role of co-chair of NHS Dorset ICP.

Members

David Brown, Chair of Health and Wellbeing Board

Rob Carroll, Director of Public Health and Communities

Sandra Moore, Cabinet Member for Communities and Partnerships

Cathi Hadley, Corporate Director, Children’s Services

Gill Taylor, Cabinet Member for Public Health and Housing

Steve Robinson, Health and Wellbeing Board Chair

Jon Price, Executive Director People – Adults Social Care and Housing

Paul Dempsey  Executive Director People – Children’s Social Care and Education

Rob Whiteman, Acting Chair

Patricia Miller, Chief Executive

David Freeman, Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Paul Johnson, Chief Medical Officer

Pam O’Shea, Interim Chief Nursing Officer

Andy Purbrick, CEO of the Local Medical Committee

Simone Yule, GP Alliance Representative

Rachel Partridge, Interim Director of Public Health

Amanda Pearson, Chief Constable

David Sidwick, Police and Crime Commissioner

Andy Cole, Chief Fire Officer

Paul Oatway, Fire Authority Chair

Matthew Bryant, Chief Executive

David Clayton Smith, Chair

Judy Gillow, Interim Chair

Siobhan Harrington, Chief Executive

Andrew Rosser, Executive Director of Finance and Infrastructure

Charlotte Green, Chair of the VCS Assembly

Paula Bennetts, Programme Director, Dorset VCSA

Jon Sloper, Chief Executive, Help and Kindness

Emma Lee, Head of Engagement, Community Action Network

Nicola Bent, Chief Executive

Deputy: Richard Booth, Deputy Chief Executive

Lesley Haig, Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences University (HSU)

Ian Gall, Chair

Vacant

Paul Read, Business Development Manager, Magna Housing

Louise Bate, Manager

Terms of reference

Terms of Reference document

Future meetings

Members of the public are invited to join the meeting either in person or virtually.

If you wish to join in person, please contact the Corporate Governance Team – corporate.governance@nhsdorset.nhs.uk

If you wish to join the meeting virtually, each meeting will be live-streamed via our NHS Dorset YouTube channel.

To access the live-stream, please click on NHS Dorset – YouTube at the start of the relevant meeting.

Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) meetings – How to ask a question

If you’d like to ask our ICP a pre-submitted question, you can do so under Part 1 of the meeting.

It is essential that sufficient time remains for the conduct of normal ICP business and the opportunity for questions will be time limited.

Questions should be succinct and relevant to the business of NHS Dorset Integrated Care Partnership (ICP).

If a question is particularly complex, it may be necessary to provide a general response to the question at the meeting with a more detailed response given in writing following the meeting.

In order to respond as fully as possible, we ask that questions be submitted to the Corporate Governance Team no later than three working days prior to the meeting.

The Chair will read out any pre-submitted questions and associated response, both of which will be recorded in the ICP minutes and published on the website with the papers for the next ICP meeting.

If you are unable to attend the meeting and the timescale in seeing the response will cause an issue, please contact the Corporate Governance Team.

Following the meeting, any questions and response not able to be raised or answered in full at the meeting will be put on a Q&A section on this page.

The Chair reserves the right to refuse any written question that is:

  • Confidential or sensitive

  • An individual complaint or matter relating to an individual’s healthcare

  • Deemed to be overly political, defamatory or vexatious

  • Substantially the same as a question that has previously been answered

If you would like further information, please contact the Corporate Governance Office.