Essentially, a Clinical Commissioning Group is a number of Gps who have been assigned certain responsibilities with the aim of progressing the design of local health services. The groups will be in operation as of April, 2012 and will buy or commission health services which will include elective hospital care, rehabilitation care, and urgent and emergency care.
The groups will work with patients and healthcare professionals and partner with local authorities and local communities. All groups will have a at least one registered nurse on board and a doctor who will play the role of secondary care specialist. They will have to face boundaries which will cross those of local authorities. They will work within those boundaries where they will arrange urgent and emergency care services as well as commissioning services for unregistered patients in the area.
The role of commissioner for GPs was announced in 2010 in a white paper entitled 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS'. It is a government plan intent on creating a commissioning system which is clinically-driven and which understands the needs of the patient.
Health care providers will compete to be in a position where they will work with GP commissioners. The groups have been set up in the form of GP pathfinders to prepare for the transfer. They will work with the Primary Care Trusts, who currently commission health care services, in shadow. Pathfinder Clinical Commissioning groups are already in place.
The NHS Commissioning Group Board will oversee the groups to ensure that they have the capacity and are capable of commissioning services with success as well as meeting their financial responsibilities. It has been in existence in shadow form since June of 2011 and aims to be entirely operation in April, 2012. There is likely to be a range of healthcare professionals in its senior structures, including a Chief Nursing Office and Medical Director.
The groups will work with patients and healthcare professionals and partner with local authorities and local communities. All groups will have a at least one registered nurse on board and a doctor who will play the role of secondary care specialist. They will have to face boundaries which will cross those of local authorities. They will work within those boundaries where they will arrange urgent and emergency care services as well as commissioning services for unregistered patients in the area.
The role of commissioner for GPs was announced in 2010 in a white paper entitled 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS'. It is a government plan intent on creating a commissioning system which is clinically-driven and which understands the needs of the patient.
Health care providers will compete to be in a position where they will work with GP commissioners. The groups have been set up in the form of GP pathfinders to prepare for the transfer. They will work with the Primary Care Trusts, who currently commission health care services, in shadow. Pathfinder Clinical Commissioning groups are already in place.
The NHS Commissioning Group Board will oversee the groups to ensure that they have the capacity and are capable of commissioning services with success as well as meeting their financial responsibilities. It has been in existence in shadow form since June of 2011 and aims to be entirely operation in April, 2012. There is likely to be a range of healthcare professionals in its senior structures, including a Chief Nursing Office and Medical Director.
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