CCGs ready to take commissioning budgets
Released 26/01/2012
Almost all CCGS are ready to take on commissioning budgets this April after passing their strategic health authority risk assessments
The CCGs were rated as ‘green’, ‘red’ or ‘amber’ on four areas
Almost 95% of all clinical commissioning groups have passed their strategic health authority (SHA) risk assessment and will be permitted to take on primary care trust (PCT) commissioning budgets in April.
Of the 243 CCGs in England, 62% were given a “green” rating by their SHA cluster, six per cent were given a “red” rating and 33% were rated as “amber”.
The CCGs were assessed by their SHA clusters on the basis of their engagement with member practices, geography and patient population, relationship with local authority boundaries, and size.
The groups were required to undergo a risk assessment of their configuration by December 2011 as the first step towards authorisation by the NHS Commissioning Board.
The CCGs were rated as ‘green’, ‘red’ or ‘amber’ on four areas, three of which related to requirements in the Health and Social Cree Bill and the fourth was designed to determine the size of the CCG in relation to their financial viability.
No London CCGs were rated as red, nearly all (96%) of CCGs in the North of England SHA were rated as “green” or “amber” rating, while CCGs in the Midlands and East SHA were most likely to get a red rating overall.
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