Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the leadership at Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group.

The most recent formal assessment of the effectiveness of the leadership at NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was as part of the 2017/18 CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework, the annual national assessment process for CCGs.

In this assessment Wirral CCG received a headline rating of ‘Requires Improvement’. There are four categories: ‘Outstanding’, ‘Good’, ‘Requires Improvement’ and ‘Inadequate’.

Within this, an annual assessment of the quality of leadership is made, and published on the MyNHS section of the NHS Choices website along with all the other indicators.

The quality of leadership rating is on a scale from ‘Green Star’, ‘Green’, ‘Amber’ or ‘Red’. NHS Wirral CCG was rated as ‘Amber’ within this assessment for 2017/18.

The link to the published ratings is available at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/Performance/Search