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<p>Concerns raised by stakeholders in the meeting hosted by the head of the Specialised
Services Task Force in NHS England included: the status of service specifications
and clinical policies, mandatory hospital data collection requirements, clinical commissioning
group (CCG) understanding of renal dialysis and a potential fragmentation of the renal
transplant pathway.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has recently established
a Task & Finish group through the NHS Commissioning Assembly. This group comprises
representatives from CCGs and NHS England, and will oversee the development and delivery
of proposals for commissioning of specialised services in 2015-16 and beyond.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Within this Task & Finish group, a sub-group will be responsible
for planning and managing the transition process for services that are being transferred
from national to CCG commissioning (including renal dialysis) from 1 April 2015.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 27 November 2014, the Department issued a public consultation
on the arrangements for the transfer of commissioning responsibility from NHS England
to CCGs for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The consultation seeks views on what type of support CCGs will need from NHS
England to be able to commission renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services
effectively and whether, if all this support can be put in place, the timing of the
transfer is right.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results of the consultation will
be used to inform the decisions on when and how to transfer the commissioning responsibility
for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services to CCGs, and the work of the
NHS England Task & Finish group. The consultation will close on 9 January 2015.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to issuing commissioning guidance
for the safe transfer of renal dialysis services from national NHS England responsibility
to local CCG responsibility.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p>
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