From 1st April 2013, NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group will be responsible for meeting local health needs within the available budget. We will do this through the commissioning (buying) of local health and care services including:
- Elective (planned) hospital care
- Rehabilitation care
- Urgent and emergency care
- Most community health services
- Mental health and learning disability services
How will it work in Stockport?
NHS Stockport CCG has agreed a constitution which sets out how the organisation will carry out its duties and make decisions. For example:
- NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group will be a membership organisation.
- All GP practices in Stockport must be members of NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group and each GP Practice will nominate a GP representative who will have voting rights.
- The Member Representatives will be collectively known as the Council of Members.
- The Council of Members has delegated the power to conduct the overall management of the NHS Stockport CCG to a Governing Body.
- NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group shall hold its Governing Body meetings in public. This will be in accessible premises and will be advertised in local GP practices and on our website stockportccg.org
- There will be a patient panel that will meet with the Governing Body three times per year to ensure that local views are heard.
GPs are, of course, significant providers of healthcare. To avoid any conflict of interest within clinical commissioning, NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group will not be responsible for GP or other primary care contracts, and all Clinical Commissioning Group members will commit to the Nolan principles, which require them to declare any interest in matters being discussed.
