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WITH financial problems, leadership changes and mounting demand on services, Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) has had a tumultuous first year.
Ian Wilson was brought in as interim chief executive last December after previous holder Dr Stephen Richards stepped down – owing to the demands of the job – to take up a new role as clinical chairman.
The OCCG’s home in an anonymous-looking office building at Oxford Business Park South, Cowley, belies its importance – it decides where most NHS spending, from hospitals to ambulances, some £630m this year, goes.
This division between providers of services like Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and OCCG as “commissioners” was introduced by former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher to drive competition, albeit within an NHS “internal market”.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11115980.Taking_a_look_over_the_controversial_shake_up_in_the_NHS/
Ian Wilson was brought in as interim chief executive last December after previous holder Dr Stephen Richards stepped down – owing to the demands of the job – to take up a new role as clinical chairman.
The OCCG’s home in an anonymous-looking office building at Oxford Business Park South, Cowley, belies its importance – it decides where most NHS spending, from hospitals to ambulances, some £630m this year, goes.
This division between providers of services like Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and OCCG as “commissioners” was introduced by former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher to drive competition, albeit within an NHS “internal market”.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11115980.Taking_a_look_over_the_controversial_shake_up_in_the_NHS/