Simon Burns: ...NHS Commissioning Board would take over responsibility for the allocation of resources from the Department for 2013-14 onwards. The board would allocate resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in a way that supports the principle of securing equivalent access to national health service services relative to the prospective burden of disease and disability. How these allocations...
Simon Burns: None. In future, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led by local clinicians will be responsible for commissioning the majority of NHS services, including tuberculosis services. Primary care trust clusters are currently working with emerging CCGs to support them in identifying the most appropriate population size for commissioning different services and establishing the most effective...
Simon Burns: No, I do not believe it is. The administration figure that has been announced for CCGs throughout the country is £25 a patient, but if a CCG is more effective and efficient in providing administration and bureaucracy and makes savings, those savings can be transferred and reinvested in funding the care of their patients. That is an incentive for them to be streamlined and to ensure that that...
Simon Burns: ...legacy debt into 2012-13 must clear it. Clinical commissioning groups will not be responsible for resolving primary care trust legacy debt that arose prior to 2011-12. It is expected that aspirant CCGs will continue to work closely with primary care trusts and primary care trust clusters in 2012-13 to ensure that no PCT ends 2012-13 in a deficit position.
Paul Burstow: ..., are best placed to understand the mental health needs of local populations and how to work with their local populations to design services that meet those needs. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will work with elected councillors, local authority commissioners and representatives of patients and the public through health and well-being boards to develop a comprehensive analysis of...
Paul Burstow: ...strategies and business cases for local solutions. Once it is established, it will be for the NHS Commissioning Board (the Board) to issue commissioning guidance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The Department will hold the Board to account through the Mandate to the Board, which will include the indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework. NHS Outcomes Framework indicators include...
Anne Milton: The majority of clinical interventions will be commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) although for some services, a collaborative, or in a small number of cases, a national approach may be appropriate. We expect that most children's palliative care services will therefore be commissioned by CCGs. The Department has received recent correspondence from my hon. Friend on behalf of...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timescale for the introduction of guidelines to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on conflicts of interest, and what interim guidance has been issued to pathfinder CCGs.
Paul Burstow: Once it is established, it will be for the NHS Commissioning Board (the Board) to issue commissioning guidance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The Department will hold the board to account through the Mandate to the Board, which will include the indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Outcomes Framework indicators include measurements on long term conditions. Quality Standards...
Simon Burns: ...practitioners (GPs) and councils are best placed to determine improvements to their local NHS. Responsibility for commissioning services will be devolved to local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which will mean that the design of patient pathways and local services is always clinically-led and based on more effective dialogue and partnership with hospital specialists. Any changes to...
Simon Burns: ...of general practitioners (GPs). This is part of the role of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts and, going forward, the NHS Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). We are working with emerging CCGs to put in place development opportunities and support for those individual GPs (and other health care professionals) who are coming forward to take on...
Simon Burns: As commissioners, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will need to have strong relationships with a range of health partners to provide them with access to information, advice and knowledge to help them make the best possible commissioning decisions. They will be under a statutory duty to seek advice in commissioning services from a broad range of professionals, such as those who are well...
Simon Burns: As commissioners, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will need to have strong relationships with a range of health partners to provide them with access to information, advice and knowledge to help them make the best possible commissioning decisions. They will be under a statutory duty to seek advice in commissioning services from a broad range of professionals, such as those who are well...
Steve Webb: ...-14 for the local provision that will replace community care grants and non-alignment crisis loans. Table 1: Discretionary social fund spend in Scotland 2010-11 by local authority £ CCGs BLs CL items CL alignment CL living expenses Aberdeen City 426,000 1,238,000 240,000 250,000 368,000 Aberdeenshire 273,000 644,000 134,000 141,000 154,000 Angus...
Paul Burstow: ..., we announced that cancer networks would continue to be funded in 2012-13 and that the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) will support strengthened cancer networks. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be required to obtain appropriate, multi-professional advice to support their commissioning decisions. The NHS CB will have a duty to publish commissioning guidance, some of which may be...
Earl Howe: From 2013-14, the NHS Commissioning Board will allocate resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in a way that is consistent with the board's duty to have regard to the need to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare services and the outcomes achieved for patients by healthcare services. We would expect this to support the principle of securing equivalent access to NHS services...
Earl Howe: ...design of local services, building in some cases on existing GP involvement in practice-based commissioning. Most day-to-day commissioning activities are likely to be undertaken by staff within CCGs, but part of the rationale for this is clinical engagement and involvement. I would be very concerned to hear of instances where GPs felt that they were being shut out of the process of...
Earl Howe: As commissioners, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will need to have strong relationships with a range of health partners to provide them with access to information, advice and knowledge to help them make the best possible commissioning decisions. They will be under a statutory duty to seek advice in commissioning services from a broad range of professionals, which can include community...
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...
Earl Howe: ...Framework to provide clear, comparative data on the quality of services commissioned for local populations and the outcomes achieved for patients. This will help clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) drive local improvements in quality and outcomes for patients. It will enable the NHS Commissioning Board to hold CCGs to account for improving quality and outcomes and reducing inequalities....
