Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what responsibility health and social care partnerships have for determining local funding priorities.
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are clinically-led statutory National Health Service bodies responsible for the planning and commissioning of high-quality healthcare services that meet the needs of their local population. In England, it is CCGs who are responsible for deciding how to best use their budgets to make sure they are delivering high quality care to their patients. They do this by developing strategic clinical plans covering a wide range of healthcare services based on their local population needs using their knowledge and links to the community in which they work.
In order to plan their commissioning decisions, local authorities and CCGs, through Health and Wellbeing Boards, use Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies to agree local priorities for local health and care commissioning.