The next public board meeting will take place on Thursday 19th July 2012 from 1.15pm to 3.00pm in Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE. If you would like to attend, please register your interest as places are limited. Please contact commissioningboard@nhs.net or call 0113 254 6515, by 12 noon on Wednesday 18th July. Please note that members […]
The first round of appointments to commissioning support service (CSS) managing director posts has been made by the NHS Commissioning Board Authority. Nine appointments have been made, while discussions are ongoing with others. The successful appointees, and their current CSSs, are: Robert Bacon – Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull Commissioning Support Service Stephen Childs – […]
Revised CCG configuration information is now available on the NHS Commissioning Board Authority website. The updated information can be found on our CCG directory page.
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority is pleased to announce the following Very Senior Managers (VSM) posts have been recruited to: Commissioning Development Directorate: Rosamond Roughton will be Director for Commissioning Systems and Strategy, responsible for the translation of the NHS Commissioning Board strategy into the development of the commissioning system, and the running of the […]
Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer, talking about the NHS Commissioning Board’s information strategy and how information will enhance patient care and improve outcomes. Comments on this page are now closed.
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority Chief Executive David Nicholson and a ‘design group’ of 15 CCG clinical leaders have written to emerging CCG leaders this week to invite one senior clinical lead from each CCG to join a new NHS Commissioning Assembly. The executive team at the Board Authority and the group of CCG leaders […]
Lay Assessors on CCG authorisation panels The NHS Commissioning Board Authority is currently working towards the authorisation of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and would like to work with patients and the public to ensure they are ready to take up their new role from April 2013. CCGs are the new clinically-led and patient-focused organisations who will […]
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today set out new care objectives for the improvement of health and healthcare, with the publication of a draft mandate – Our NHS care objectives: a draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board – which sets out the expectations for the health service and marks the move to a more patient […]
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has today confirmed receipt of 35 applications for authorisation from the CCGs in ‘wave one’ in accordance with its deadline of 2 July 2012. Wave one is the first of four waves of applications from CCGs which are to be submitted from July to November 2012. Dame Barbara Hakin, National […]
Dame Barbara speaking from the Commissioning Show about some of the latest developments from the NHS Commissioning Board Authority, including CCG authorisation and board development.