Integrated Care Board finally has permanent Chief Exec and Chair as finances tighten.

The first few years of the BOB Integrated Care Board which manages the NHS in our area (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) have been marked by instability in leadership. Now we have both a permanent Chief Executive and Chair.

Nick Broughton, formerly chief executive of Oxford Health, the mental health and community NHS trust for Oxfordshire, is chief executive of BOB, while Dr Priya Singh has been appointed chair of the BOB board. Dr Singh is also chair of the Frimley Integrated Care Board, giving at least some coherence between Berkshire West and Berkshire East.

Sim Scavazza, who was acting chair, remains a non-executive member of the BOB board.

In the meantime, BOB ICB had been allowed a plan with £61M deficit for this financial year and had already reached that total deficit after 4 months. As a result it has been moved into NHS England's control category 4, and inspectors and consultants will be appointed to supervise its finances.