Health and Social Care Act 2012
2012 CHAPTER 7
Commentary on Sections
Part 1 – The Health Service in England
The health service: overview
Section 10 (new section 1I) -Clinical commissioning groups
123.As set out in Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (4), the Act will create a comprehensive system of CCGs. Their purpose would be to commission most NHS services, supported by and accountable to the NHS Commissioning Board.
124.This section inserts new section 1I into the NHS Act. The new section provides that there are to be corporate bodies to be known as clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Subsection (1) of new section 1I provides that CCGs will be established in accordance with Chapter A2 of Part 2 of the NHS Act and subsection (2) sets out that CCGs will have the function of commissioning services for the purposes of the health service in England in accordance with the NHS Act.
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