Healthcare In Lancashire
Healthcare in Lancashire in 2015 was the responsibility of seven clinical commissioning groups covering Blackpool, Chorley and South Ribble, East Lancashire, Fylde and Wyre, Greater Preston, Lancaster North and West Lancashire. In 1 April 2017 32 GP practices from Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group merged with Lancashire North CCG to form Morecambe Bay CCG which was abolished in July 2022 when integrated care systems were introduced. History From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Lancashire (Including Manchester but not Liverpool) were managed by the Manchester Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities. Lancashire and Manchester came under the North Western RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Lancashire came under the North West Regional Health Authority. Lancashire from 1974 had seven district health authorities, for Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley, Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, ...
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Clinical Commissioning Group
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in each of their local areas in England. On 1 July 2022 they were abolished and replaced by Integrated care systems as a result of the Health and Care Act 2022. Establishment The announcement that GPs would take over this commissioning role was made in the 2010 white paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS". This was part of the government's stated desire to create a clinically-driven commissioning system that was more sensitive to the needs of patients. The 2010 white paper became law under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in March 2012. At the end of March 2013 there were 211 CCGs, but a series of mergers had reduced the number to 135 by April 2020. To a certain extent they replaced primary care trusts (PCTs), though some of the staff and responsibilities moved to local authority public health teams when PCTs ceased to ...
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