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The move to hand primary care commissioning to CCGs has a ‘feeling of déjà vu’ about it, with the new commissioning groups looking very similar to old primary care trusts, NHS England’s director of co-commissioning has admitted.
Speaking at the NHS Alliance conference in London yesterday, Dr Julia Simon, NHS England’s national programme director of primary care co-commissioning, said we are ‘moving in [the] direction’ of reinventing PCTs, with the major difference being the clinical leadership component.
Speaking to Pulse, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the comments were ‘final confirmation’ that the Heallth and Social Care Act reforms of the last few years have ‘led us back where we started’.
When the reforms were introduced in 2013, CCGs were prevented from commissioning primary care, mainly as a result of fears over potential conflicts of interests around GPs commissioning primary care.
However, in recent months there has been a move by NHS England and the Government to encourage CCGs to take on responsibility for commissioning and public health.
This was opposed by GPs at the the LMCs Conference in York this year, who warned that a move to co-commissioning would be ‘repeating the mistakes of PCTs’ while the GPC has warned that attempts to put more lay people on CCGs to avoid conflicts of interest would lead to the ‘recreation of PCTs’.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/co...f-pcts-nhs-england-lead-says/20008674.article
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Complete waste of time and money when the health service could least afford it. Would have been far better to tighten up the existing system (which the NHS were already moving towards before 2010). Lots of expertise lost, or re-hired at huge expense
Speaking at the NHS Alliance conference in London yesterday, Dr Julia Simon, NHS England’s national programme director of primary care co-commissioning, said we are ‘moving in [the] direction’ of reinventing PCTs, with the major difference being the clinical leadership component.
Speaking to Pulse, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the comments were ‘final confirmation’ that the Heallth and Social Care Act reforms of the last few years have ‘led us back where we started’.
When the reforms were introduced in 2013, CCGs were prevented from commissioning primary care, mainly as a result of fears over potential conflicts of interests around GPs commissioning primary care.
However, in recent months there has been a move by NHS England and the Government to encourage CCGs to take on responsibility for commissioning and public health.
This was opposed by GPs at the the LMCs Conference in York this year, who warned that a move to co-commissioning would be ‘repeating the mistakes of PCTs’ while the GPC has warned that attempts to put more lay people on CCGs to avoid conflicts of interest would lead to the ‘recreation of PCTs’.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/co...f-pcts-nhs-england-lead-says/20008674.article
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Complete waste of time and money when the health service could least afford it. Would have been far better to tighten up the existing system (which the NHS were already moving towards before 2010). Lots of expertise lost, or re-hired at huge expense