Health: Clinical Commissioning Groups

Debate between Earl Howe and Lord Dykes

Thursday 26th April 2012 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, CCGs will be statutory bodies and so the answer is yes.

[Lord Dykes]

My Lords, will the Minister reassure the House that the nationality rule will be maintained to make sure that British people are on the boards and that American advisers do not get too heavily involved?

[Earl Howe]

As my noble friend may remember from our debates on the Health and Social Care Bill, we have undertaken to ensure that no member of a commissioning support organisation may also be a member of the governing body of a CCG. Having said which, it is important that CCGs have the freedom to take advice on back-office functions and other matters that will assist them in their clinical decisions.