Plans to form single CCG in Shropshire get green light from NHS bosses
Health bosses have approved plans to create a new organisation that will be responsible for buying local NHS healthcare services for the whole of Shropshire.
The plans will involve dissolving both Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups to form a new single organisation for the county, due to launch in April next year.
The plans have now been authorised with conditions by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Dr Julian Povey, chair of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin CCGs, said: “Historically we have had two small clinical commissioning groups working across the county and this has led to duplication and inconsistency.
“The key benefit of creating just one single health commissioner to cover the whole county is there will no longer be a ‘postcode lottery’ as to what services you can access depending on whether you live in Shropshire or over in Telford and Wrekin.”
David Evans, joint accountable officer for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin CCGs, said: “This ratifies the work that has been going on behind the scenes now for some time at the CCGs where we have been stripping out duplication so we can work more efficiently and bring more cohesion to the way we deliver services for the people of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
"This is also part of the process to becoming an integrated care system.
“We have a number of conditions to meet and these are common with major decisions of this kind, but we have already started work on these including the creation of a joint board and action plan.”
