Justin Madders: At the moment, ICBs are not a legal entity, so they do not own anything. When the Bill comes into force, they will effectively take over mainly administrative buildings from the CCGs, and the trust will hold ownership of most of the assets. We hope that there will not be the risks that my hon. Friend outlines, although it is not impossible for ICBs to set up their own trusts at some point in...
Gillian Keegan: While clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for their own funding decisions, we would expect future funding for mental health services, including services for children and young people, to be in accordance with the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS). This requires CCGs to increase investment in mental health services in line with their overall increase in allocation each...
Gillian Keegan: ...pressures on the acute sector. Independent hospices have since returned to business as usual funding arrangements, with their services commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). NHS England and NHS Improvement expect CCGs to ensure that the provision of these services effectively meets the needs of the local population and ensures high quality personalised care. The NHS...
Edward Argar: ...for making prescribing decisions for their patients, taking into account best prescribing practice and the local commissioning decisions of their respective clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). A General Practitioner (GP) is able to prescribe any product on the National Health Service they consider necessary for the treatment of their patient unless it is listed in Schedules 1 or 2 to the...
Gillian Keegan: ...and plan the care and support needs of their local populations and must ensure a diverse range of quality, sustainable care and support services are provided. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) commission high quality community health services to meet health needs of people living at home, helping recovery or maximising health and wellbeing for people with disability or long-term...
Baroness Brinton: ..., setting up Public Health England to fail. PHE was to support the new systems of public health locally, whether the teams of directors of public health, other areas of public health such as CCGs or the work carried out by local authorities. PHE also did some key work on the public health burden of alcohol, and it certainly played its part in the global health response to Ebola—both...
Edward Argar: NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) 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. As of June 2021, there were 2,964 HCHS staff working in palliative medicine in National...
Lord Kamall: We have no plans to do so. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance Items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care: Guidance for CCGs identifies items which are clinically effective but where more cost-effective products are available. This includes liothyronine and other products that have been subject to excessive price inflation. The guidance states that there are three...
Justin Madders: ...of continuing healthcare is inadequate. In 2018, a Public Accounts Committee inquiry on continuing healthcare found: “NHS England is not adequately carrying out its responsibility to ensure CCGs are complying with the legal requirement to provide CHC to those that are eligible.” It also found that “there are limited assurance processes in place to ensure that eligibility decisions...
Gillian Keegan: Information on the funding for palliative care these services is not held centrally as clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the planning and commissioning of high-quality, cost-effective services that meet the needs of their local population. Any assessment regarding the adequacy and availability of services, including palliative care beds and hospice at home services...
Edward Argar: ...a formal duty on ICBs to develop a separate strategy is unnecessary and not the best approach, but I hope the Committee will allow me to expand on my reasoning. There are already several duties on CCGs to consider the needs of victims of violence, including victims of domestic abuse, through the joint strategic needs assessment process. CCGs must respond to identified needs through health...
Edward Argar: ...’s review on a regular basis, and they have governance mechanisms in place to monitor both mental health spend and service delivery. NHS England and NHS Improvement also require that local CCGs and, in future, ICBs once they become operational will ensure that local funding for mental health grows at least in line with the growth in their overall funding allocations. That is referred to...
Baroness Brinton: ...there are times when they can be improved, as I said. As my noble friend Lord Paddick and others have said, this Bill contains powers that appear to override these responsibilities, demanding that CCGs and health boards in Wales pass on personal medical information; however, the doctor who logged that data is unable to take part in any decision about it being passed on. The noble Lord,...
Edward Argar: 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. As of the end of July 2021, there were 21,942 full time equivalent (FTE) midwives working in...
Baroness Brinton: ...to add a veteran to their list, or in this case perhaps a police officer who has retired. With the current shortage of GPs, many lists are full and it would be difficult, but there is no duty on CCGs to help find such a person access to local services. If they have to wait to get on a GP waiting list and they have moved into a different area, it will mean that any other services they have...
Sajid Javid: My hon. Friend is right to raise this. Capital is allocated by two CCGs on a regional basis that is weighted by population, and, as he says, if that population changes, the weighting also changes. Additional funding can sometimes be allocated from section 106 or community infrastructure levy funding as well, but I am more than happy, if my hon. Friend would like, to meet him to discuss this...
Maria Caulfield: ...health checks and performed more than 38,000 lung health checks. The following table shows the number of people invited for a lung health check within each of the 18 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) where data is available and the number of health checks carried out following the invitation. Number of invitations July 2021 Number of lung health checks July 2021 NHS...
Gillian Keegan: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for services and support for people with dementia. We expect CCGs to commission services that take into account relevant guidance, including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines and the Dementia Care Pathway, which sets out benchmarks to improve the delivery and quality of care and support. Public Health...
Gillian Keegan: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for funding end of life and palliative care services in their area as part of their statutory responsibilities. NHS England’s palliative and end of life care delivery plan describes their focus on improving access, quality and sustainability in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, which contains a specific commitment to provide more...
Edward Argar: We have interpreted the hon. Member's question to refer to the intended future monitoring of integrated care boards (ICBs) as the successor to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The proposals for ICBs are set out in the current Health and Care Bill. ICBs will be established from April 2022 and will take on the merged allocations from CCGs. The Department does not currently monitor the per...
