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NHSCC is the only independent membership organisation exclusively for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).
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We’re giving CCGs a strong, influencing voice from the frontline to the wider NHS, national bodies, government, parliament and the media. We’re building new networks where CCGs can share experience and expertise; and providing information, support, tools and resources to help CCGs do their job better.
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Building our future together: Thanks for a great event It was great to be able to meet so many of you at our first national event: Building our future together. As our plenary speaker Sir Ian Kennedy said CCGs constitute a great hope for the future – you, he said, can get commissioning right. To do this he said you have to make sure that you have a clear vision and deliver leadership while being aware of the risk of politicisations and not fall into the trap of managerialism. As he said it is far more powerful to care about the experience of patients and the safety of patients than the managerial talk of patient experience. Most of all he said CCGs must quickly grab the opportunity to be radical or risk “falling into the sea of mediocrity”. The day provided a great opportunity for important issues to be raised and some key themes have already become apparent. We know that being in a CCG can be a lonely place and leading a CCG can be even lonelier so meeting together with like-minded colleagues is essential – we will be looking different ways we can provide support and this will include the networks we are launching (see below for more information). We will be using the output from all your contributions to further develop our work programme for the day – but we leave the day with two very clear message First that Clinical Commissioning needs a strong independent voice and NHS Clinical Commissioners is determined to help CCGs have that voice. And in the words of NHSCC Leadership Group co-Chair Dr Steve Kell “the NHS doesn’t need clinical commissioning to work…patients need it to succeed”. To see some of the presentations used on the day and some photos of the event click here
“the NHS doesn’t need clinical commissioning to work…patients need it to succeed”
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