Robert Jenrick: ...Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in National Health Service hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers. The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE)...
Baroness Brinton: My Lords, over the last six years, the provision of palliative care for children and young people has become very patchy. CCGs across England have been closing down palliative care for children. Are the Government taking action to hold integrated care boards to account publicly on implementing their duty to commission palliative care for children and young people?
Baroness Brinton: My Lords, one of the key elements of ensuring there is a good transition is the procurement process. Last month, three CCGs were fined for using considerable organisational bias to ensure that their contracts went to a preferred company. The fine must be paid by the ICB, and the staff from the CCG are now in the ICB. What are the Government going to do to ensure that this sort of practice is...
Maria Caulfield: NHS England is responsible for the operational oversight of the transition from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to integrated care board (ICB) structures from 1 July 2022. While staffing levels are the responsibility of individual ICBs, former CCG staff below Board level were transferred directly into ICBs on 1 July, in line with NHS England’s employment commitment. At Board level, the...
Maria Caulfield: ...in the format requested. NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers. From 31 December 2019 to 31 March 2022, a headcount of 75,638 nurses and health visitors joined National Health Service...
Maria Caulfield: NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers. The attached table shows the age profile of midwives by headcount working in National Health...
James Morris: NHS England undertook a central procurement exercise for home oxygen supplies (HOS) on behalf of local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). However, individual contracts are in place between CCGs and suppliers and are not held centrally. All HOS contracts are based on the National Health Service terms and conditions for the procurement of services which is available at the following link:...
Baroness Brinton: ...on 13 May, and of the reported failure by clinical commissioning groups to follow NHS England’s national guidance, Prescribing of Liothyronine, published in 2019, which shows that 58% of CCGs are still not complying with the national guidelines? Can the Minister intervene? This seems to be a ridiculous situation.
Edward Argar: Under the Health and Care Act 2022, 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) will be established on 1 July 2022. ICBs will take on the commissioning functions of existing clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as well as delegated responsibility for primary medical services. Nine ICBs will also have delegated responsibility for one or more pharmaceutical services, general ophthalmic services and dental...
Edward Argar: Under the Health and Care Act 2022, 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) will be established on 1 July 2022. ICBs will take on the commissioning functions of existing clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and delegated responsibility for primary medical services. As required by the Act, CCGs have worked with designate ICB leaders in developing the constitutions for each ICB and shared these...
Conor McGinn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of (a) CCGs in the North West of England, (b) NHS England and (c) NHS Improvement on proposals for a local tertiary service for Tourette’s syndrome; and if he will provide an update on the status of those plans.
Maria Caulfield: The information requested on the number of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which commission chiropody services is not held centrally. The Vale of York CCG commissions chiropody and podiatry services, which are delivered by Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.
Lord Kamall: .... We are making good progress; investment in NHS mental health services continues to increase each year, from almost £11 billion in 2015-16 to £14.3 billion in 2020-21. We expect all current CCGs—and ICBs once operational —to continue to meet the mental health standard, and we have made a number of amendments. We are investing more than £400 million over the next four years to...
Daniel Poulter: ...put right these challenges? There is a real problem with the commissioning of dental services. I am afraid that I do not have faith that ICSs will be a panacea to sort things out, because local CCGs, some of which were not good commissioners of a number of services, have simply been cut and pasted into the same posts on the ICSs. Will my hon. Friend reassure me that she will personally...
Daisy Cooper: ...groups are not even statutory consultees for planning applications, for local plans or even for permitted development. It should be a priority for this Government to change that and make sure that CCGs have the right resources to respond to planning proposals. Then we have the problems with dentists. Like many other Members use, I have constituents who have raised these problems. I have...
Gillian Keegan: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the provision of and access to hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in the local population. In 2018, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance, ‘Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management’, which aims to improve hearing loss services, including provision of hearing aids. The...
Edward Argar: NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The information requested as of 15 June 2022 is not currently held. However, as of December...
Maria Caulfield: Data on the number of dentists undertaking work on behalf of the National Health Service is collected by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). In 2020/21, 300 dentists delivered NHS activity in NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG and 3,840 in the NHS North East and Yorkshire region. NHS England’s regional commissioners continue to work with local contractors to restore access to NHS dentistry to...
Baroness Brinton: ...arguing that we need to specify mental health here; otherwise, it will not be the priority it should be, not just for schools but for our local authorities, for local NHS bodies—whether they are CCGs or not—and, above all, for government to provide grants to make sure that it can happen. I also support Amendment 37, which strengthens our amendment by referring to guidance by the...
Kevin Foster: ...with a GP or are being helped to do so. A full range of vaccinations is being offered, alongside mental health support and other services, and the NHS has provided an additional £3m of funding to CCGs to support the specific needs of the evacuees. We have been working to support Afghan families into homes of their own, so they can settle into their local communities, feel safe and...
