Clinical Commissioning Groups
(asked on 21st October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines his Department issues to clinical commissioning groups; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 28th October 2014
The commissioning responsibilities of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are set out in the NHS Act 2006, The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 and The National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups— Disapplication of Responsibility) Regulations 2013, as amended.
NHS England has responsibility for issuing guidance to CCGs.