The National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Regulations 2012

Regulation 9(3)

SCHEDULE 3 Factors relating to applications for CCG dissolution

The following are the factors referred to in regulation 9(3)—

(a) The likely impact of the dissolution on the persons for whom the CCG to be dissolved has responsibility.

(b) The likely impact of the dissolution on the amounts allotted or to be allotted under section 223G of the 2006 Act (expenditure of CCGs to be met out of public funds) to any CCG which would be affected by the dissolution, in respect of the financial year in which the dissolution would take effect.

(c) The likely impact of the dissolution on the Board’s functions.

(d) The extent to which the CCG to be dissolved has sought the views of the following, what those views are, and how the CCG has taken them into account—

(i) unitary local authorities and upper-tier county councils (within the meaning of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1) whose area coincides with, or includes the whole or any part of, the area specified in the CCG’s constitution,

(ii) any other CCG which in the CCG’s view would be affected by the dissolution,

(iii) any other person or body which in the CCG’s view might be affected by the dissolution.

(e) The extent to which the CCG to be dissolved has sought the views of individuals to whom any relevant health services are being or may be provided, what those views are, and how the CCG has taken them into account.

“Relevant health services” means any services which are provided as part of the health service pursuant to arrangements made by the CCG in the exercise of its functions.