Three key documents related to commissioning development have been ratified at the board meeting of the NHS Commissioning Board Authority this week. They are:
Towards establishment: Creating responsive and accountable clinical commissioning groups. This guidance intends to support GP practices, and all those they work with, to work through the arrangements they need to put in place in order to apply to the NHS Commissioning Board to be established as a clinical commissioning group.
Developing commissioning support: Towards service excellence. This guidance is designed to assist the set-up of locally sensitive, customer-focused support services for CCGs and describes the assurance processes required to establish commissioning support organisations.
Developing clinical commissioning groups: Towards authorisation. This document was first published in September last year and sets out the thinking to help emerging CCGs consider the steps towards authorisation.
All the documents can be found on the CCG resources page on the NHS Commissioning Board Authority’s website.
