About Us

About the Clinical Commissioning Group

The CCG serves a resident population of 177,643 and a registered population of 197,040 with a budget of £220m. Our boundary is coterminous with B&NES Council.  Approximately 45 staff are employed within the CCG.  We have a strategic partnership with Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit who provide us with a range of services.

The CCG is clinically led, with aim of having its 27 practices at its heart.  The practices are currently working in five cluster groupings.  Fundamental to our role as a CCG is effective clinical engagement at all levels. Clinical relationships between commissioners and providers at both strategic and operational levels underpin this and we have worked hard to establish these as an accepted way of working.

We believe that our role as a high performing CCG is to lead our health and care system collaboratively through the commissioning of high quality, affordable, person centred care which harnesses the strength of clinician-led commissioning and will empower and encourage individuals to improve their health and wellbeing status. 

Our priorities for the next 5 years have been set in developing Seizing Opportunities: A Five Year Strategy for Bath and North East Somerset following consultation with members of the public, patients, carers and stakeholders:

• Increasing focus on prevention, self care and personal responsibility
• Improving the coordination of holistic, multidisciplinary Long Term Condition management (focusing initially on Diabetes)
• Creating a stable, sustainable and responsive Urgent Care system
• Commissioning integrated, safe, compassionate pathways for frail older people
• Redesigning Musculoskeletal pathways to achieve clinically effective services
• Ensuring the interoperability of IT systems across the health and care system

These are underpinned by our refreshed strategic objectives:

• Improving quality, safety and individuals experience of care
• Improving consistency of care and reducing variation of outcomes
• Providing proactive care to help people with complex care needs
• Creating a sustainable health system within a wider health and social care partnership
• Empowering and encouraging people to take personal responsibility for their health and wellbeing
• Reducing inequalities and social exclusions and supporting our most vulnerable groups
• Improving the mental health and wellbeing of our population
• Critical to the success of this is primary care, and with this in mind we are in the process of establishing co-commissioning arrangements with NHS England.