Earl Howe: ...care trust allocations was made on 14 December 2011 for 2012-13. For 2013-14 the NHS Commissioning Board will be responsible for the allocation of resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the department will make a ring-fenced public health grant to local authorities for their new public health responsibilities. The Secretary of State has asked the Advisory Committee on...
Anne Milton: Infertility treatment services will be commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) with the NHS Commissioning Board providing oversight and support. This support will include the provision of supportive resources and tools on how CCGs can collaborate to commission infertility services.
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: ...for considering applications from clinical commissioning groups to be established and for determining those applications. The process of authorisation is an important element of ensuring that CCGs are ready to take on their commissioning responsibilities. There are 212 aspiring CCGs that are preparing to apply for authorisation.
Anne Milton: ...services will be commissioned by clinical commissioning groups, with the NHS Commissioning Board providing oversight and support. That will include the provision of resources and tools to enable CCGs to collaborate to commission infertility services. We will continue to expect those commissioning infertility treatment services to be fully aware of the importance of having regard to the...
Paul Burstow: ...is working with NHS colleagues who currently commission specialised services towards producing a list of services for direct commissioning by the board. Additionally, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will have flexibility to decide how best to commission other low-volume services, for example through collaboration and lead commissioner arrangements. Health and Wellbeing Boards will...
Simon Burns: From 2013 the NHS Commissioning Board will be responsible for the future allocation of resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the Department will make a ring-fenced public health grant to local authorities for their new public health responsibilities. We are committed to robust, needs-based approaches to the allocation of resources to both CCGs and local authorities, to support...
Earl Howe: ...by NICE and these will act as markers of high quality, clinically and cost effective patient care. The NHS Commissioning Board Authority is supporting emerging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in considering how they commission certain services such as for neurological conditions. Once established, the NHS Commissioning Board will use the NHS outcomes framework and NICE quality...
Earl Howe: It is for prospective clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to determine the best size at which effectively to exercise their functions and meet the needs of their patients. The NHS Commissioning Board will be responsible for ensuring that CCGs are of sufficient size to ensure that they can discharge their functions and that they have an appropriate area, for example, in relation to their...
Earl Howe: ...5, which is about treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm, also relates to that area. These areas will be centre stage in the way that the NHS CCGs in particular are monitored by the board.
Tom Blenkinsop: .... With responsibility for commissioning health care services now falling to clinical commissioning groups, and with primary care trusts being axed, centralisation is a real temptation both for the CCGs and for the foundation trusts that have taken over the responsibility of the management of primary care hospitals in Teesside. Another future scenario for community hospitals is the...
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...
Paul Burstow: ...health care for patients. One of the NHS Commissioning Board's roles will be to provide national leadership, in driving up the quality of care. The board, along with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), will have a legal duty to secure continuous improvement in the quality of services and outcomes. In addition, CCGs will work with local authorities to develop a comprehensive analysis of...
Lord Ribeiro: ...the UK doing islet cell transplantation, with good records and good outcomes. I want to know whether the PCTs are not funding these operations in order to present a clean sheet to the incoming CCGs in April 2013, or whether there is another reason.
Earl Howe: ...board/files/2012/06/lat-senates-pack.pdf The areas covered by the 27 local area teams have been determined primarily by reference to the coverage and boundaries of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the boundaries of upper-tier local authorities. Other factors such as clinical networks and senates, local resilience forums and local health resilience partnerships were also taken into...
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.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...to belong to. In paragraph 5.6 of the mandate, we come to this wonderful phrase: "The Government's aim is to move away from the top-down management of the NHS to a system where fully authorised CCGs will have, as the Future Forum put it, 'assumed liberty'". The idea that the Government are currently engaged in letting go is a fantasy. The system is being tightly controlled from the centre....
Simon Burns: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will assume responsibility from 1 April 2013 for commissioning national health service healthcare services, with the exception of certain services (such as primary care and specialised services), which will be commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board. The healthcare services CCGs will commission will include acute services, and mental health and...
Simon Burns: ...role in overseeing key elements of governance such as audit, remuneration and managing conflicts of interest. This is to ensure that there is independent oversight of the governance arrangements of CCGs, including systems for managing conflicts of interest and checks and balances for the stewardship of public money. The 2012 Act provides for regulations to specify requirements as to...
