Concerns over plans to merge two NHS CCGs in Cheshire and Merseyside have been raised by councillors.
Three CCGs have been working in tandem over past 18 months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent vaccination programme
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NHS England said it wants all CCGs to merge across Integrated Care System (ICS) boundaries by April 2022, as part of proposed changes to legislation.
Members of the public can hear from local decision makers about what has been happening across healthcare in mid Essex during the last year, plans for the next year and to ask any questions.
The merger agenda has been a prominent one for Clinical Commissioning Groups across the country for over a year now.
A local CCG and council executive in St Helens is set to leave her role in the near future. Professor Sarah O’Brien, executive director of people’s services, and clinical accountable officer at St Helens CCG,
Dr Helen Wall has taken on the role after the previous commissioner, Dr Barry Silvert, retired earlier in the year.
It comes as bosses from the combined Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) CCG presented their report at a meeting of Luton Borough Council’s health and social care review group.
If successful, the proposed merger would create a £2bn per year health trust.
NHS bosses are expecting that there will be more job losses at the Kent and Medway CCG, although they are not coronavirus related.
