About us
NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group – known as a CCG – plans, buys and monitors local health services.
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) give local doctors and local people more say in organising their own healthcare.
CCGs were developed in 2013, the members of Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG are 16 GP practices that serve the local population. Our role is to plan and buy services to meet the needs and improve health and wellbeing of our local population. We plan and buy services such as:
- planned hospital care
- rehabilitation services (such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy)
- most community services (district nursing services, for example)
- urgent and emergency care, including A&E, ambulances and GP out-of-hours services
- mental health services
- maternity services
- continuing healthcare (a package of care provided outside hospital for people with ongoing health needs)
- GP primary care services (on 1 April 2015 NHS England granted us full delegated responsibility for commissioning these services).
We work closely with other CCGs in West Yorkshire and Harrogate, as well as Bradford Council, North Yorkshire County Council, NHS England and the public.
We bring together healthcare professionals, local communities and managers so patients have more control of their own care; to provide greater focus on healthcare and quality; to increase the involvement doctors and nurses have in the care of services delivered; and to improve the health and experiences of local people.
