Nhs Southern Derbyshire Ccg

We bring together the combined expertise of 56 local GP practices to commission health services on behalf of over 546, 000 patients in southern Derbyshire.

NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) brings together the combined expertise of 56 local GP practices to commission health services on behalf of over 525, 000 patients in Southern Derbyshire. Our vision is to continuously improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Southern Derbyshire, using all resources as fairly as possible.

At its simplest, commissioning is the process of planning, agreeing and monitoring services. However, securing services is much more complicated than securing goods and the diversity and intricacy of the services delivered by the NHS is unparalleled. Commissioning is not one action but many, ranging from the health-needs assessment for a population, through the clinically based design of patient pathways, to service specification and contract negotiation or procurement, with continuous quality assessment. There is no single geography across which all services should be commissioned: some local services can be designed and secured for a population of a few thousand, while for rare disorders, services need to be considered and secured nationally.