Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the requirement laid down by the NHS Commissioning Board for Commissioning Support Units to become autonomous by the end of 2016 is to be removed.
No decision has been made. The proposed change was at the request of Clinical Support Units’ (CSU) Managing Directors - to give greaterflexibility to apply to become autonomous when they are ready, rather than having to work to a fixed timetable. A decision will be taken once NHS England’sCommissioning Committee has met.