We hold our board meetings in public in the interests of openness and transparency in our decision making.
The next public board meeting will take place, at the Birmingham University Edgbaston campus, on Thursday 31st May 2012 from 10.30am to 1.00pm in the:
Nicolson Building (next to)
Winterbourne House & Botanical Gardens
58 Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2RT
This is location G12 on the downloadable map. The Nicolson building is about 10 minutes by cab from Birmingham New Street train station and free parking is provided onsite which will be clearly marked in front of the conference building. See also the website for the venue.
Registration at the event starts from 10am.
If you would like to attend, please register your interest as places are limited. Please contact commissioningboard@nhs.net or call Finn Dudaniec, by 12 noon on Wednesday 30th May, on 0113 254 6550.
Please note that members of the public are welcome to attend meetings of the Board – which although being held in public are not public meetings. Questions submitted via this website won’t be passed on for discussion at Board meetings but will receive a response.
The board meeting will be broadcast live as part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible. The livestream is best viewed in Firefox, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 and 9 with the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. You may experience issues viewing this content in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
View a recording of the board meeting on Ustream
A separate recording of each agenda item is also available.
You can view the agenda and board papers below.
- Board meeting agenda
- Item 1 – Minutes from previous meeting
- Decisions of the public Board meeting held 31 May 2012
Board papers
- Item 2 – NHS Commissioning Board programme update
- Item 3 – Update on end state running cost position of the NHS Commissioning Board 2013-14 and 2014-15
- Item 4 – Design of the NHS operations directorate
- Item 5 – Emerging clinical commissioning group configuration: names, geography and constituent members
- Annex 1: List of emerging CCG names to be put forward for authorisation along with indicative running cost allowance
- Annex 2: Clinical commissioning groups in England proposed geographic boundaries
- Annex 3: CCGs confirmed for waves 1, 2, 3 and 4 for authorisation
- List of proposed known constituent member practices within each proposed CCG (data taken from April 2011)
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While I note the distinction between a meeting in public and a public meeting I have attended a number of meetigs in public including one of the board of NICE where members of the public were allowed to ask questions. It is my experience that the most probing questions tend to come from members of the public because they have an interest and knowledge in the area and this is why they attend. In the circumstances can the board revisit the question of not allowing the public to ask short and to the point questions. It can be made clear that if they ramble on they would be cut off.
Also on the authorisation process for the CCGs can you let me know what the process is for the rcruitment of the lay assessors.
Hi Michael. Thanks for your query regarding members of the public asking questions at the NHS Commissioning Board Authority’s (NHS CBA) Board meetings. We do value public and patient involvement in our work, but Board meetings are formal meetings where Board business is discussed and transacted. After each Board meeting, however, all Board members are free to spend some time with the public, responding to the questions they have and any issues they wish to raise.
In addition, as you know, there is the facility for members of the public to pose questions on the NHS CBA’s website. Board papers are also published on the website, and the meetings are ‘live streamed’. We feel that this enables the public access to the work that the Board is doing. There are currently no plans to open up the Board meetings for public discussion on the agenda items, but we will keep the position under review.
With regard to your question about the recruitment of lay assessors, we’d like to thank you for your interest in the authorisation of clinical commissioning groups. Proposals for the involvement of lay people in the authorisation process are being developed and we will be in touch with you with the details once these have been finalised.
Following your comment to Michael Vidal on 1st June 2012, please will you also let me know about the recuitment of lay assessors for the authorisation of CCGs.
Thanks
Hi Catherine, we’ve previously published information regarding the recruitment of Lay Assessors on CCG authorisation panels on this website. As you can see, the closing date has passed for this wave, but any future recruitment will be announced here. I hope this helps.