Issue - meetings

A brief overview of the changes to the health service structure.

Jill Shattock, Director of Clinical Commissioning, Haringey Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

Jill Shattock, Director of Clinical Commissioning (Designate) gave a summary of the main changes to the health structure from 1^st April 2013.

•         Primary care trusts and strategic health authorities to be abolished

•         Public health functions moving to local authorities

•         Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to take over commissioning for local areas and be statutory bodies (Haringey CCG is on track to be fully authorised from 1 April with one or two conditions).

•         Commissioning Support Units will support CCGs (in Haringey we are supported by the North and East London CSU)

•         NHS Commissioning Board will be responsible for primary care contracting and for the authorisation of CCGs

•         Ownership of buildings will move to NHS Property Services Ltd or to providers

•         Health and wellbeing boards will be established

•         LINks will be abolished and replaced by local Healthwatch.