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...
Mary Glindon: ...an accelerating postcode lottery. A number of rationed or decommissioned treatments are common across several PCTs and clinical commissioning groups, while some are specific to individual PCTs and CCGs. That demonstrates the wide variation throughout the country. The survey found that rationing of treatment varies from capping, as in NHS South West Essex and NHS South East Essex, where a...
Simon Burns: The Health and Social Care Act 2012 provides for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to become responsible for commissioning the majority of NHS services. CCGs will be required to involve other local health and social care professionals to understand the needs of local populations and how to work with their local populations to design care pathways and services that meet those needs. Health...
Earl Howe: ...important role in making sure that the CCG has effective systems in place for involving a range of healthcare professionals in decision-making. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 places a duty on CCGs to obtain appropriate advice from a broad range of health and care professionals to enable them to discharge their functions effectively. This would include those with expertise in local...
Derek Twigg: ...lists. It has now been changed to take account of data from the Office for National Statistics. Will the Secretary of State assure me that deprived areas will not lose out on the funds allocated to CCGs—not the per-head funds, but the funds allocated to CCGs as a result of the change?
Lord Turnberg: ...what to do about it and left to herself is likely to be reluctant to fund the patient's care. These are the sorts of cases that have to be funded and commissioned centrally and cannot be left to CCGs. Only when sufficient knowledge and expertise are available can commissioning be rationally arranged. Here, the advisory group has been invaluable. It is not simply commissioning that is...
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: ...for managing conflicts of interest. The constitution will form a key part of the evidence the NHS Commissioning Board will review when considering a CCG's application to be established. To support CCGs to put in place appropriate governance arrangements, the NHS Commissioning Board Authority has produced guidance for CCGs, which sets out how to adhere to accepted principles of good...
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...
Simon Burns: This information is not held centrally. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will take on statutory responsibility for commissioning health services from April 2013. Prospective CCGs are currently developing their organisations, including finalising who will take on the role of chair of their governing body, in advance of applying to the NHS Commissioning Board for establishment.
Paul Burstow: We do not anticipate that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be supplying data to the NHS Information Centre. Data on services commissioned by CCGs, including musculoskeletal services, will be captured from providers and mapped onto CCGs for the purpose of analysis.
Daniel Poulter: ...NHS Commissioning Board will be accountable for the strategic delivery of primary care IT in the future, with funding and responsibility for GP IT being delegated to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). CCGs, as commissioners, will need to own a local informatics strategy as part of their role in driving forward transformation of services. Clinical systems and their provision are a vital...
Daniel Poulter: From April 2013, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led by local national health service doctors and nurses will be responsible for commissioning the majority of NHS services, including tuberculosis (TB) services. Primary care trusts (PCTs) are currently working with newly formed CCGs to support them in identifying the most appropriate population size for commissioning different services....
Anna Soubry: ...will provide opportunities for more integrated commissioning and provision of tuberculosis (TB) services driven by health and wellbeing boards, in partnership with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), the NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHS CBA), Public Health England and service providers. In August, the NHS CBA issued a framework for collaborative commissioning between CCGs. The...
Anna Soubry: From 1 April 2013, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) will have a statutory obligation to arrange for the provision of health services it considers necessary to meet the requirements of those patients for whom they are responsible. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 will require CCGs to act with a view to securing continuous improvement in the quality of services provided to individuals...
Norman Lamb: ...Board (NHS CB) will be responsible for decisions on the commissioning outcomes framework, which the board will use to measure the quality of care commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the associated health outcomes. The recommendations developed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) are intended to support the NHS CB in designing the...
Anna Soubry: ...some services will be commissioned by the NHS CB (primary care and specialised services) and some by clinical commissioning groups for their populations. The role of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will therefore be to ensure the commissioning of appropriate services to deliver against the areas for which they will be responsible. These will include, for example, commissioning of...
Anna Soubry: ...), a shared set of priorities and a strategy to address these in joint health and well-being strategies (JHWSs). The key local health and social care commissioners (clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities) will be represented on each health and wellbeing board with the NHS Commissioning Board also expected to appoint a representative to participate in the preparation of...
John Baron: ...of. We have the one-year and five-year figures in the NHS outcomes framework, which holds the NHS Commissioning Board to account. Locally, however, it is the clinical commissioning groups—the CCGs—that will play a key role in delivering better cancer care. They are held to account by a different outcomes framework: the commissioning outcomes framework, known as the COF. The COF will do...
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...
