The National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Regulations 2012

Membership of CCG governing body

11.—(1) A CCG’s governing body must have at least six members (including its chair and deputy chair(1)).

(2) The CCG’s accountable officer is to be a member of its governing body.

(3) The membership of the governing body must also include, at least, one each of the following—

(a) an employee of the CCG who has a professional qualification in accountancy and the expertise or experience to lead the financial management of the CCG,

(b) a registered nurse, other than one who falls within regulation 12(1),

(c) an individual who is a secondary care specialist, other than one who falls within regulation 12(1),

(d) a lay person(2) who is qualified for membership by virtue of regulation 12(3),

(e) another lay person who is qualified for membership by virtue of regulation 12(4).

(4) Each member of the governing body (other than the accountable officer) is to be appointed by the CCG for a term to be determined by the CCG(3).

(5) The individual described at paragraph (3)(a) is to be known as the CCG’s Chief Finance Officer; if the governing body’s membership includes two or more individuals of that description, the CCG must designate one of them as the Chief Finance Officer.

(6) In paragraph (3)(c) (and in regulation 12(1)), “secondary care specialist” means a registered medical practitioner who is, or has been at any time in the period of 10 years ending with the date of the individual’s appointment to the governing body, an individual who fulfils (or fulfilled) all the following conditions—

(a) the individual’s name is included in the Specialist Register kept by the General Medical Council under section 34D of the Medical Act 1983(4), or the individual is eligible to be included in that Register by virtue of the scheme referred to in subsection (2)(b) of that section;

(b) the individual holds a post as an NHS consultant or in a medical specialty in the armed forces;

(c) the individual’s name is not included in the General Practitioner Register kept by the General Medical Council under section 34C of the Medical Act 1983(5).

(7) In paragraph (6)(b)—

“armed forces” means the naval, military or air forces of the Crown, and includes the reserve forces within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996(6) (power to maintain reserve forces);

“NHS consultant” has the meaning given by section 55(1) of the Medical Act 1983(7).

(1)

See regulation 13.

(2)

“Lay person” is defined in section 14N(6) of the 2006 Act.

(3)

A CCG’s accountable officer is appointed by the National Health Service Commissioning Board under paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 1A to the 2006 Act. Schedule 1A is inserted by section 25(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the 2012 Act.

(4)

1983 c. 54. Section 34D was inserted by S.I. 2010/234.

(5)

Section 34C was inserted by S.I. 2010/234.

(6)

1996 c. 14.

(7)

Section 55(1) was so re-numbered by S.I. 1996/1591, and the definition of “NHS consultant” was inserted by S.I. 2010/234.