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NHS Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Cluster until 2013
NHS Buckinghamshire and NHS Oxfordshire have now become joined or ‘Clustered’.
NHS Clusters have been established by the Department of Health to ensure that the NHS maintains business continuity of commissioning healthcare locally and to facilitate the change to the new structure of the NHS in 2013, including the move to Clinical Commissioning Groups.
All NHS Clusters will have three principal functions:
- Delivery of the PCTs’ Operational Plans and driving clinical service change for 2011 to 2013 and ensuring financial stability for the handover to Clinical Commissioning Groups
- Ensuring and supporting development of Clinical Commissioning Groups and transferring of other current cluster functions to the new organisations yet to be established i.e. the National Commissioning Board, Public Health England, Health Education England, Health and Wellbeing Boards, public health to Local Authorities
- Creating the relevant commissioning support organisation for Clinical Commissioning Groups after post PCT abolition.
