Clinical Commissioning Groups

(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assurance process has been in place since clinical commissioning groups were established to ensure good governance and probity; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of those arrangements in the Liverpool area.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 4th April 2017

NHS England has a statutory duty to conduct an annual performance assessment of every clinical commissioning group (CCG). From 2013-16 this was through the CCG assurance framework. From 2016 this was replaced by the CCG improvement and assessment framework. These frameworks assessed whether CCGs had good governance arrangements.

Liverpool CCG was rated good in the 2015-16 CCG assurance annual assessment. No probity issues have been raised for Liverpool CCG. It has received unqualified opinions in respect of probity and value for money from its external auditors each year.

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