Your future local NHS health services
- moving towards clinical commissioning groups

Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LC CCG) represents the 65 GP practices across the city who serve around 360,000 patients. To open the CCG's own web site, please use this link.

What is a clinical commissioning group?

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were formed to drive forward a new era in NHS healthcare. Our role is to lead on strategic planning to tackle our area's healthcare needs, and to work with budget holders to buy in the right services to meet those needs.

Under the NHS reforms in the Health and Social Care Act, CCGs like ours are set to take on many of the functions currently performed by local primary care trusts. In readiness for that change-over, we were formed in a ‘shadow' role in April 2011. This means that we are increasingly taking on healthcare commissioning responsibilities and developing our organisation in preparation for authorisation as statutory bodies by 2013.

We are currently setting out our future health and healthcare priorities and strategies.

Among these priorities is helping to tackle the excessive pressures on the city's emergency care facilities, such as A&E.

Who's who in Leicester City CCG?

Board Members

Prof Azhar Farooqi Co-Chair and GP
Dr Avinashi Prasad Co-Chair and GP
Dr Tony Bentley Locality Chair (North East Leicester) and GP
Dr Durairaj Jawahar Locality Chair (Millennium) and GP
Dr Rajesh Kapur Locality Chair (Leicester City Central) and GP
Dr Umesh Roy Locality Chair (Leicester Primary Care Group) and GP
Dr Paul Danaher GP
Dr Nitin Joshi GP
Dr Teck Khong GP
Dr Gurvinder Singh GP
Mr Pete Rabey Secondary Care Clinician, Divisional Director - Women and Children, University Hospitals of Leicester
Dr Simon Freeman Managing Director
Sue Lock Chief Operating Officer
Michelle Iliffe Chief Finance Officer
Sharon Robson Chief Quality Officer / Lead Nurse
Deb Watson Director of Public Health, NHS Leicester City / Leicester City Council

See a list of the GP practices in the area covered by Leicester City CCG.

Use this link to see our CCG's progress reports presented to the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Primary Care Turst Cluster Board meetings. Once it opens, click on the relevant month from the list on the left.

Contact us

If you would like further information on the development of the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group, or details on how you can get involved and help shape the future of Leicester's health care, please get in touch.

Write to:
Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group
St John's House
30 East Street
Leicester
LE1 6NB