Clinical Commissioning Groups

(asked on 24th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, when Clinical Commissioning Groups outsource some of their commissioning role to integrators, lead providers or through other similar mechanisms, how the administrative costs so transferred will be counted against the Clinical Commissioning Groups' administrative cost cap.


This question was answered on 29th June 2015

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), as independent statutory bodies, can choose how best to carry out their commissioning functions from within their running cost budget.

Where CCGs choose to outsource their support and to buy from external providers, this funding will be charged against their fixed running cost allowance.

Service integrators and lead providers co-ordinate and provide care for patients; they are not commissioners, nor do they undertake commissioning activities or responsibilities.

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