The Norfolk and Waveney integrated care board, which controls health services locally, is set to be abolished as part of a major NHS shake-up.
The move comes after the government told ICBs nationwide to slash their running costs in half.
The Norfolk and Waveney organisation was only created in July 2022.
But under the shake-up, a new ICB for Norfolk and Suffolk would be created in its place.
The changes will also see the abolition of the Suffolk and North Essex ICB.
This process is already under way, with Ed Garratt currently serving as chief executive of both Norfolk and Waveney and Suffolk and North Essex ICBs.
Parts of Cambridgeshire were also considered for inclusion in the new organisation, but this aspect of the plan has been dropped.
It is expected that the changes will come into full effect from April next year, after which the Norfolk and Waveney ICB will cease to exist.
But the proposals will come under scrutiny from councillors this month at a meeting of the Norfolk health overview select committee.
In a report going before the committee, Karen Barker, one of the ICB’s executive directors, wrote: “Across the region we have agreed that the most workable model for ICBs in the East of England will see the current six ICBs reduce to three.
“Following a period of engagement with our colleagues and our key stakeholders, as well as our ICB partners across the region, we reached a consensus around a single option, which has been agreed by NHS England.”
The three new ICBs created as a result of the shake-up will be as follows:
- Norfolk and Suffolk
- Greater Essex
- Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and Hertfordshire