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Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the new dementia diagnosis targets for each Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) showing the (a) CCG name and code, (b) CCG current diagnosis rate, (c) CCG diagnosis rate ambition for 2013-14 and (d) CCG diagnosis rate ambition for 2014-15.
Anna Soubry: ...of cancer patients across all the domains of the NHS OF. ‘Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care’ is also Domain 4 of the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCG OIS). The CCG OIS indicators in this domain, many of which are shared with the NHS OF, will both hold CCGs to account for—and provide information for the public on—improvements in patient...
Jeremy Hunt: Allocations to CCGs are the responsibility of NHS England. However, I have been advised that NHS England will rely on advice from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) for changes in the CCG formula.
Dominic Raab: I thank the Minister for that answer. My constituency struggled under a particularly inefficient primary care trust. It is, of course, early days, as the Minister has explained, but Surrey Downs CCG is already saving costs in bureaucracy so as to invest strategically in cutting counselling waiting lists, increasing funding for children with multiple disabilities, and setting up virtual wards...
Anna Soubry: ...that there is not a separate approach to oversight of the commissioning of NHS fertility services. However, NHS England has general intervention powers in relation to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), should it be satisfied that a CCG is failing or has failed to discharge any of its functions, or there is a significant risk that it will fail to do so. These include directing the CCG to...
Anna Soubry: ...the course of 2013-14. NHS 111 services for Kent are provided as part of a wider contract which includes Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The 111 service has one overall host clinical commissioning group (CCG) lead, which sits with the Swale CCG and is supported by a project and contract team purchased via the Kent and Medway Commissioning Support Service. The contract value of the NHS 111...
Hugh Bayley: ...pursuant to the oral answer to the hon. Member for York Central of 11 June 2013, if he will place in the Library a table showing (a) the cash allocation for 2013-14 for each care community group (CCG) in England and (b) the figures provided to his advisory panel on NHS funding which illustrated how much each CCG would have received for 2013-14 if the money had been distributed according to...
Earl Howe: Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are now responsible for commissioning elective surgical interventions such as cataract surgery, with NHS England providing oversight and support. NHS England has general intervention powers in relation to CCGs, should it be satisfied that a CCG is failing or has failed to discharge any of its functions, or there is a significant risk that it will fail to...
Anna Soubry: ...had records showing all nine checks had been completed between January 2010 and March 2011, up by almost 3% from 2009-10. Revenue allocations are currently made to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) by NHS England on the basis of a weighted capitation formula, used to determine CCGs' target share of available resources to enable them to commission similar levels of health services for...
Hugh Bayley: ...less money than any other PCT in the region. Secondly, the PCTs’ base funding was not split evenly between the five new clinical commissioning groups in north Yorkshire and York, and Vale of York CCG, which covers the city of York, received the lowest share of the funding. Thirdly, that meagre amount was top-sliced, because the former PCT had overspent its budget in the previous year. I...
Earl Howe: A clinical commissioning group (CCG) must have at least two lay members on its governing body. One of these lay members will act as champion of patient and public involvement. Appointments to CCGs’ committees and sub-committees are set out in each CCG’s constitution. As these are local decisions, we are unable to confirm how many patient representatives have been appointed directly to...
Anna Soubry: ...specific to cancer patient experience in the NHS OF. ‘Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care’ is also Domain 4 of the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCG OIS). The CCG OIS indicators in this domain, many of which are shared with the NHS OF, will enable clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to benchmark themselves on these matters and to inform the...
Hugh Bayley: ...2013, Official Report, column 556W on NHS: finance, if he will (a) produce and place in the Library a document setting out the 2013-14 financial allocation to each clinical commissioning group (CCG) on a per capita basis and (b) request that the advisory panel on NHS funding calculate how much funding per capita would have been provided to each CCG in North Yorkshire and York if the...
Norman Lamb: ...framework for the mental health strategy makes clear our expectation that improving the commissioning of mental health services should form a vital element of clinical commissioning groups’ (CCG) and NHS England’s work to improve outcomes for people with mental health problems. The application process for CCG authorisation requires organisations to demonstrate that they have sufficient...
Anna Soubry: .... In making those allocations, NHS England relies on advice from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation. ACRA provides advice on the share of available resources provided to each CCG to support equal access for equal need, as specified in the mandate given by the Secretary of State to NHS England. Therefore, NHS England does not set income for CCGs on an equal cost-per-head basis...
Jeremy Hunt: ...the advice from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, I am also satisfied that the four tests for reconfiguration have been met. As a result of the changes I am supporting today, Trafford CCG will be able to reinvest an additional £3.5 million to deliver what local people have asked for—more choice, more preventive care and more services closer to home. That will include community...
Baroness Jolly: ...but for a user the crucial thing is the availability of the services. Will my noble friend tell the House whether services for those addicted to prescription drugs are readily available within each CCG area and where one might find details of such services?
Lord Wallace of Saltaire: ...to commission health care services. As such, they are accountable to Parliament for how they utilise these resources. Clause 20 therefore requires the auditor to give an opinion on whether the CCG has used these resources as Parliament intended and in accordance with guidance covering financial transactions. However, this clause currently requires auditors of the accounts of special...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...in primary medical services? There are questions about whether it has the capacity to do that, and any reassurance on this subject would be welcome. Finally, on exemptions, as I understand it, CCGs, when commissioning services from GP practices, are not exempted by Regulation 5. However, if the practice is large and goes over the £10 million threshold under Regulation 8, it may be...
Daniel Poulter: The National Health Service Act 2006, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, sets out the clear requirements on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in relation to registers of interests and managing conflicts of interest. Under section 140 CCGs are responsible for maintaining registers of interests of the members of its boards. However, information contained on registers of...
