Ben Gummer: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have responsibility for ensuring that they are meeting the needs of those requiring children’s palliative care services, considering the full range of local provision, both statutory and voluntary sectors, and the wishes of children and young people and their families. We do not undertake national comparisons of the approach to palliative care in...
Alistair Burt: ...investment of £1.4 billion the Government is making during the course of this Parliament to transform local child and adolescent mental health services. All clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), working closely with their partners in local government, Children’s Services and education, have developed plans to transform their local offer. These plans cover the full spectrum of mental...
Alistair Burt: ...by clinical commissioning group (CCG) as Tier 4 services are commissioned nationally by NHS England Specialised Commissioning, and one CAMHS inpatient centre may serve the area covered by several CCGs. Specialised Commissioning Area Beds/100,000 population East Midlands 2.76 East of England 2.87 London 2.35 North East 3.03 North West 2.75 South Central 2.96 South...
Alistair Burt: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have responsibility for the commissioning of comprehensive secondary adult mental health services. The exact nature of support available will vary by CCG and be subject to local decision making. NHS England’s programme of work to develop mental health access and waiting time standards spans all ages with a focus on enabling timely access to care...
Alistair Burt: ...available over the course of this Parliament to improve mental health services for children and young people. In line with guidance published by NHS England, all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have produced Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) for children and young people’s mental health and these have all now been assured and funding allocated for implementation. These plans...
Alistair Burt: ...and treating our children and young people’s mental health, and to supporting their families. Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) which have been developed by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to deliver this ‘vision’ have been successfully assured by NHS England. These plans must cover the whole spectrum of services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing,...
Alistair Burt: ...available over the course of this Parliament to improve mental health services for children and young people. In line with guidance published by NHS England, all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have produced Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) for children and young people’s mental health and these have all now been assured and funding allocated for implementation. These plans...
Lord Prior of Brampton: ...of people who have AF. The NHS Atlas of Variation includes such data and similarly Public Health England (working with stakeholders) has produced information for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to enable them to identify and encourage poorly performing areas to improve their detection and management of people with AF. The Atlas is an online tool and therefore it is not possible to...
Lord Prior of Brampton: ...of hepatitis C, their attendance is included in the national tariff. Depending on the specific nature of their healthcare need, their care may be paid for by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) or by NHS England’s specialised services hubs according to coding and whether the care they receive is defined as a prescribed specialised service. Some patients may have aspects of their...
Lord Prior of Brampton: NHS England has been supporting Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) to identify the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that are relevant to their geography. In many cases boundaries are co-terminous and this will assist in communications. Where this is not the case, this will mean that CCGs, ODNs, and NHS England commissioning hubs will work across a wider footprint to collaborate on...
Lord Prior of Brampton: ...of an online hub for children and young people on the NHS Choices website and further investment made into a campaign to reduce stigma and discrimination as proposed in Future in Mind. All CCGs, working closely with their partners, have developed and submitted LTPs to transform their local offer for children and young people’s mental health. Plans cover the whole spectrum of services...
Lord Prior of Brampton: It is a statutory obligation that decisions on healthcare provision should be taken independently by local commissioners. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) must decide how to use their resources in a way which is evidence based, clinically-led and cost-effective in order to provide high-quality healthcare for people in their area. CCGs must also balance both short-term need and long-term...
Alistair Burt: NHS England advises that the Wealden constituency includes practices from two clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – High Weald Lewes Havens CCG and Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG. NHS England advises that surgeries do not have a specific maximum number of patients allowed to register at a general practitioner (GP) surgery. If a practice considers that it has too many patients...
Jane Ellison: ...Service organisation level, and not constituency level. Data on the number of people with dementia in the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust, the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that replaced it and England are shown in the tables below. Table 1: QOF: Patients on the dementia register and prevalence rates in the specified CCGs, 2012/13 to 2014/15. Table 1a: NHS High...
Ben Gummer: It is a statutory obligation that decisions on healthcare provision should be taken independently by local commissioners. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) must decide how to use their resources in a way which is evidence based, clinically-led and cost-effective in order to provide high-quality healthcare for people in their area. CCGs must also balance both short-term need and long-term...
Alistair Burt: ...that some people on the autistic spectrum can have in getting an appropriate diagnosis and support in a timely manner. NHS England has commenced a programme to visit clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to identify and share good practice in accessing timely autism diagnosis. NHS England with support from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services is to visit a selection of...
Alistair Burt: ...the report’s recommendations and work is already underway to address the issues it raises. The draft Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) improvement and assessment framework will require CCGs to monitor and reduce out of area treatments, with reductions from 2016/17. Additionally, NHS England is planning a significant programme on acute care in 2016/17 for both in-patient and home...
Alistair Burt: ...in other areas to further improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. As set out in NHS England’s guidance to support the development of LTPs an integral part was for CCGs to include a tracking template that sets out local progress milestones and financial spend. This tracker will be used as the basis for assurance assessment in 2015/16, and from 2016/17 onwards...
Alistair Burt: The majority of mental health commissioning is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The specialised commissioning teams within NHS England work with CCGs and providers to ensure that the impact of any changes to community based services and specialised services upon the whole care pathway are handled in a coordinated way. The planning guidance for the National Health...
Sam Gyimah: ...specialist mental health services, to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed. There are 22 pilot areas covering more than 200 schools across 27 CCGs.
