23.01.13
Second wave of CCGs authorised
67 new clinical commissioning groups have been authorised to take control of NHS budgets, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced.
This brings the total of CCGs to 101, serving more than 28 million people. The first 34 CCGs were authorised in December 2012. All 211 CCGs will need to be authorised to take responsibility for £65bn of the £95bn commissioning budget from 1 April.
Dame Barbara Hakin (pictured), the NHS Commissioning Board’s National Director: Commissioning Development, said: “Almost half of the CCGs are now authorised and we are moving at pace towards a clinically-led NHS that is focused on delivering improved health outcomes, quality, innovation and public participation.”
The remaining 110 CCGs are set for authorisation over the next two months.
All 67 in the second wave have completed a rigorous five-month assessment, and 19 have been authorised with no conditions, having met all 119 criteria. 45 have been authorised with conditions, and three CCGs – NHS Nene CCG, NHS Herts Valleys CCG, and NHS Medway CCG – will be authorised to take control of their commissioning budgets, but with more intensive support.
The new CCGs will plan and commission hospital, community health and mental health services on behalf of over 18 million people.
Dame Barbara said: “The vast majority of these 67 new organisations have demonstrated excellence and a very high level of achievement and are clearly ready for the challenge of leading their local health communities in partnership with the public and with local partner organisations. Many have been commissioning services for one or two years already and are making a significant difference to local health and care services.
“Authorisation is just the beginning: these new organisations will continue to develop, and I am confident patients will start to see real benefits in their local areas as CCGs begin to realise their potential.”
“CCGs will have wide-ranging responsibilities and will manage very large budgets, so it is vital that they are robust and capable of making important decisions. The NHS Commissioning Board has a duty to ensure CCGs have that capability across all their responsibilities, and we take that duty very seriously.
“CCGs have made fantastic progress in a very short time. It has always been clear that some of the new organisations would be at different stages to others, often dependent on their previous commissioning activities. The NHS Commissioning Board has the mechanisms in place to give them all the support they need and we can assure the communities in these areas that health commissioning will be done to the same high standard as elsewhere.
“At the point of authorisation, a CCG has sufficient building blocks in place to become a mature and developed commissioning organisation. Even those CCGs authorised with no conditions at all will be working to make further improvements in the future, and the NHS Commissioning Board will continue to support all CCGs in their development.”
The 67 CCGs authorised in Wave 2 are:
NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG
NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG
NHS Bradford City CCG
NHS Bradford Districts CCG
NHS Brent CCG
NHS Brighton and Hove CCG
NHS Bromley CCG
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG
NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG
NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
NHS Crawley CCG
NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG
NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG
NHS Ealing CCG
NHS East Lancashire CCG
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG
NHS Fareham & Gosport CCG
NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG
NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG
NHS Greater Preston CCG
NHS Hammersmith & Fulham CCG
NHS Harrow CCG
NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG
NHS Herts Valleys CCG
NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG
NHS Hounslow CCG
NHS Hull CCG
NHS Isle of Wight CCG
NHS Lambeth CCG
NHS Leeds North CCG
NHS Leeds South and East CCG
NHS Leeds West CCG
NHS Lewisham CCG
NHS Lincolnshire West CCG
NHS Medway CCG
NHS Milton Keynes CCG
NHS Nene CCG
NHS North East Essex CCG
NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG
NHS North Lincolnshire CCG
NHS North West Surrey CCG
NHS Northumberland CCG
NHS Nottingham City CCG
NHS Nottingham North & East CCG
NHS Nottingham West CCG
NHS Redditch & Bromsgrove CCG
NHS Rushcliffe CCG
NHS Salford CCG
NHS Sheffield CCG
NHS South Cheshire CCG
NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG
NHS South Sefton CCG
NHS South Tees CCG
NHS South Worcestershire CCG
NHS Southport & Formby CCG
NHS Southwark CCG
NHS Stockport CCG
NHS Sunderland CCG
NHS Swindon CCG
NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG
NHS Vale Royal CCG
NHS Walsall CCG
NHS West Hampshire CCG
NHS West London (Kensington and Chelsea, Queen’s Park and Paddington) CCG
NHS Wyre Forest CCG
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