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Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is a clinically -led statutory NHS body and is responsible for the planning and commissioning of health care services for their local area. CCGs are:
- Membership bodies, with local GP practices as the members;
- Led by an elected governing body made up of GPs, other clinicians including a nurse and a secondary care consultant and lay members;
- Responsible for approximately 2/3 of the total NHS England budget;
- Responsible for commissioning healthcare including mental health services, urgent and emergency care, elective hospital services and community care;
- Independent and accountable to the Secretary of State for Health through NHS England;
- Responsible for the health of populations ranging from under 100,000 to 900,000, although their average population is about a quarter of a million people.
For the Hartlepool population the responsible body is Hartlepool & Stockton-on-Tees Clinical Commissioning Group.
More information can be found here.