Clinical Commissioning Groups for Wirral
The Governments White Paper published in July 2010 outlined an ambition for an NHS that puts patients first and continually improves the quality and outcomes of care for everyone. This improvement will come from devolving power to professionals, patients and carers.
Each Clinical Commissioning Group will be a statutory body with clear powers and duties. This will not affect the status of GPs and GP practices as providers of primary care.
Commissioning decisions will reflect the healthcare needs of the practice’s registered patients together with the needs of unregistered patients for which the practices are responsible, through the use of high quality information that is available to them.
By April 2013, there will be a comprehensive system of clinical commissioning groups, supported by and accountable to a new independent NHS Commissioning Board.
Three Wirral GP Groups have been successful in being registered as pathfinders, which allows them to take on increasing responsibilities for commissioning, using powers and budgets delegated to them by PCTs within the current statutory framework.
Their work in 2011/12 will provide the foundations for when consortia are established in 2012/13 and will take on the leading responsibility for commissioning healthcare services, ahead of them becoming fully statutorily accountable from April 2013 onwards.
The three Wirral GP Groups are:
List of GP Surgeries within each consortium
Each of our three GP Commissioning Groups Pathfinders have published their commissioning plans for 2011/12. These were approved by the NHS Wirral Board this week.