16 Update on the Development of the Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group
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Report of the Chair of the
Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) updating the
Committee on the developments regarding clinical commissioning,
since the last update in February 2011, attached.
Minutes:
The Committee received and commented on the
report and presentation of Dr Steve Townsend, Chair of the
Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group and Sandy Hogg,
Executive Director, NHS Southampton City, updating members on the
developments regarding clinical commissioning since they last
discussed in February 2011.
(Copy of the report circulated with the agenda and appended to the
signed minutes).
The main points from the report and
presentation included the following:-
- Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) and Health Authorities would be
disbanded by April 2013 and replaced by Clinical Commissioning
Groups and the NHS Commissioning Board with Local Health and
Wellbeing Boards being set up to co-ordinate healthcare activity
with the aim of making the NHS more accountable to the communities
it served.
- Southampton City PCT became part of
the SHIP (Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth)
cluster in June 2011which is a subcommittee of the four
PCT’s. The Clinical Commissioning Group is a
subcommittee of the cluster.
- In order for Southampton City CCG to
have the maximum permissible delegated responsibility from the SHIP
cluster, an application to be authorised is required during Summer
2012. There will be further Board
election early next year to ensure that there would be a stable
leadership during this period.
- One of the biggest challenges for
CCG’s was their capacity and
capability to undertake the amount of work required in the
development process within the stipulated timeframes.
- The importance of broadening the scope
of CCG’s to include other areas
such as social services, children’s services, housing and
other related areas impacting on health.
- The Health and Wellbeing Board will
be a statutory Board responsible for ensuring that the JSNA was
effectively carried into clinical commissioning and the Health
Overview and Scrutiny Committee was responsible for scrutinising
the decisions taken by the board.
These two bodies could not be combined as there would be a conflict
of interests.
RESOLVED
(i)
that the report and presentation detailing the progress towards
becoming a statutory Clinical Commissioning Group was
noted; and
(ii)
that the Committee supported the
Clinical Commissioning Group’s application to the NHS
Commissioning Board to begin the process for authorisation.