12.09.11
Clinical Commission Coalition launched
The NHS Alliance has formed a partnership with the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) to provide independent support to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The group will be known as the Clinical Commission Coalition.
The organisation will ensure CCGs do not get overburdened by statutory responsibilities and are not controlled by the centre. The shared principles they have agreed on include commissioners being free to choose whatever support they need, maximising local direction and ensuring care is centred on the needs of patients.
Dr Michael Dixon, chairman of the NHS Alliance, said: “As the two organisations that have wholeheartedly championed clinical commissioning over the last two decades, we have a long history of commitment and dedication to the clinical commissioning cause.
“We will listen to and represent CCGs’ views and concerns without compromise, wherever and whenever necessary. We will be a united voice that will serve to balance the top heavy approach often seen in the NHS. We will insist on ‘nothing about us without us’.”
Dr Johnny Marshall, chairman of NAPC, said: “Our respective organisations bring their particular strengths to the table to enable us to be bigger than the sum of our parts. NAPC has an unwavering history of supporting innovative GPs working with budgets, bringing both clinical and financial accountability together for the benefit of local patients and populations.
“These are exciting, if challenging, times. The strength of our two organisations working in partnership on the same agenda should reassure CCGs of our commitment to their cause and that of their patients.”
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