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Baroness Wheeler: ...were to promote the integration of health and social care services and providing health and well- being boards with real teeth and powers and the authority for final sign-off of the vital CCG commissioning plans. These measures would have reinforced in legislation the requirement for real collaboration and funding of local services to make the best use of resources across the NHS and in...
Baroness Wheeler: ...growing concern of GP leaders and delegates that grass-roots GPs were being excluded from involvement in clinical commissioning groups. How will the Minister address this, and will he ensure that CCG guidance includes best practice on how their involvement can be ensured?
Earl Howe: ...Board Authority is currently developing a research strategy setting out its intentions for how the board will exercise this duty. The Act creates a duty for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to promote research, in line with the duty on the NHS Commissioning Board. The NHS Commissioning Board Authority is leading on authorisation of CCGs and, in April 2012, published clinical...
Simon Burns: No. It will be for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to agree the contracts of employment for their staff. Each group may appoint such persons to be employees as it considers appropriate. It will pay remuneration and travelling and other allowances in accordance with determinations made by its governing body, and employ them on such other terms and conditions as it may determine. Where a...
Andrew Lansley: This year, developing CCGs have delegated responsibility for more than £30 billion of local commissioning. Clinical leadership is using NHS resources more effectively, as part of improvements in care. In particular, we are seeing many improvements in community-based services—for example, a pulmonary exercise programme in Durham; a community spinal service in Reading; and a new...
Simon Burns: I congratulate West Cheshire and other CCGs on the progress that they have made by aspiring to CCG authorisation. We expect first-wave applicants to be informed of the outcome of their authorisation applications by November. Once the outcome is known, the focus will be on ensuring a safe and managed transition from primary care trusts to CCGs on 1 April 2013.
Simon Burns: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will have freedom to decide how to use their running costs allowance to secure support to carry out commissioning activities. This includes decisions on the number of administrative staff they employ. They may also buy in support from external organisations, including public, voluntary and private sector bodies. The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has...
Earl Howe: ...of Health will make a ring-fenced public health grant to local authorities. The Secretary of State has asked the independent Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation to develop formulae for both CCGs and local authorities. We published ACRA's interim recommendations for local authorities on 14 June and its recommendations on CCG funding will be published in due course.
Earl Howe: ...hold the service to account will be based on the commissioning outcomes framework very largely, but of course there will be very tight financial controls through the accounting officer of every CCG. Broadly speaking, the service will be held to account through the results achieved for patients, the quality of care and the outcomes. There will be metrics attached to those-the indicators...
Simon Burns: The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires that every clinical commissioning group (CCG) must have a governing body. The Government Response to the NHS Future Forum report committed to each governing body having at least two lay members, one with a lead role in championing patient and public involvement, the other with a lead role in overseeing key elements of governance such as audit,...
Simon Burns: ...Commissioning Board will develop a commissioning outcomes framework to drive up quality and provide transparency and accountability about the quality of services that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) commission for their patients. While the board will be expected to give CCGs freedom to commission services tailored to the needs of their local population, CCGs will be accountable to the...
Earl Howe: Each clinical commissioning group (CCG) must have a governing body, which will have the role of ensuring the CCG exercises its functions effectively, efficiently, economically and with good governance. Its membership must include at least one secondary care specialist who should have no conflict of interest in relation to the CCG's responsibilities. For example, they should not be from a...
Andrew Lansley: ...experience of care. In the last year, for example, NHS Dorset clinical commissioning group has worked to improve outcomes in cardiology, dermatology and muscular-skeletal services, and NHS Nene CCG has admitted more than 3,000 patients on to a proactive care scheme, which I have had the privilege of seeing for myself, to identify and reduce the risks of people needing an emergency...
Earl Howe: Infertility treatment services will be commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with the NHS Commissioning Board providing oversight and support. This will include the provision of supportive resources and tools on how CCGs can collaborate to commission infertility treatment services. The NHS Commissioning Board will have general intervention powers in relation to CCGs, should it...
Simon Burns: The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires each clinical commissioning group (CCG) to have a constitution. This must set out various matters including the arrangements the CCG has made to discharge its functions and those of its governing body; its key processes for decision-making (including arrangements for ensuring openness and transparency in the decision-making of the CCG and its...
Simon Burns: The NHS Commissioning Board will be responsible for considering applications from Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) for establishment. The board will be required to satisfy itself of a number of core matters when considering applications, including whether a CCG has an appropriate area, satisfactory governance arrangements and whether it will be able to discharge its commissioning...
Richard Drax: ...attends daily. This is not an underused facility. The hospital staff, the league of friends and consultants want the service expanded, not closed; yet the clinical commissioning group, bless it, or CCG, which sounds rather sinister—I do not like these acronyms—wants to close it and introduce a polyclinic in its place. I had wondered whether this was to be a home for parrots or carrots,...
Norman Lamb: ...Those are the sort of things that the hon. Lady’s Bill seeks to encourage and I am sure that she will welcome them as they emerge around the country. The service was designed by North Norfolk’s CCG patient partnership, which was formed to give patients at the practices in North Norfolk the chance to influence and help to design local health services. That is exactly what we should be...
Anna Soubry: ...the shape of the commissioning outcomes framework for 2013-14 and beyond. COF will play an important role in driving up quality in the new system. Covering £60 billion in services commissioned by CCGs across the NHS, it will translate the NHS outcomes framework into clear, comparative data on the quality of services that CCGs commission for their local populations and the outcomes...
Earl Howe: Infertility treatment services will be commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with the NHS Commissioning Board providing oversight and support. This will include the provision of supportive resources and tools on how CCGs can collaborate to commission infertility treatment services. The NHS Commissioning Board will have general intervention powers in relation to CCGs, should it...
