Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to make clinical commissioning groups aware of their commissioning responsibilities as set out in the manual for prescribed specialised services in 2016-17.

Specialised services are the responsibility of NHS England.

The ‘Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services 2016/17’ outlines which prescribed specialised services commissioned by NHS England are related to which services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). It is one of a suite of products that NHS England has developed to facilitate the effective commissioning of specialised services.

However, it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of CCG commissioning responsibilities.

The manual is available from NHS England’s website at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/pss-manual-may16.pdf