Liverpool CCG Grants and Contracts / NHS Services

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Dear NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group

1. Can you please send me the definition of what is an NHS Service? And Or an Nhs provider ?
2. Can you explain how you differentiate between NHS grants and NHS contracts?
3. What circumstances / criteria do you use that you would award grants and contracts?
4 What is the process for deciding if an NHS Grant or NHS Contact is appropriate?
5 Are suppliers / Providers on NHS contracts classed as delivering NHS services?
6. Are suppliers / Providers on NHS Grants classed as delivering NHS Services
7. Are suppliers / Providers on NHS grants committed to the same reporting, evaluation and analysis processes as those on NHS contracts
8 Is there a proforma for reporting on grant agreements and contracts – if so can you please send a blank template.
9 Can you please send a blank template of a grant and a contract?
10. Are the same legal rights and responsibilities applied to Grantees and contract holders if there are differences can you please name those differences
Are any Voluntary Community Sector organisations on an NHS Contract?

Is there a maximum monetary value placed on a grant as opposed to a NHS contract ?

Do you have contracts with any businesses Such as Virgin Healthcare, gp services / medical centres which are which provide NHS services ? - If so are these classed as provider of NHS services?
Can you give me a breakdown of how you differentiate between commercial and VCS organisations

If a provider was playing an integral part of an NHS pathway from your definition would they be classed as being an NHS provider ?

Yours faithfully,

Thomas Gallagher

Freedom Of Information (CCG), NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group

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Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Liverpool CCG | The Department | Lewis’s Building | 2 Renshaw Street | Liverpool | L1 2SA

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Freedom Of Information (CCG), NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group

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Good afternoon Mr Gallagher

Please find the response to your recent FOI.

Many thanks

Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group
The Department, Lewis’s Building, 2 Renshaw Street, Liverpool, L1 2SA
web: www.liverpoolccg.nhs.uk | twitter: @liverpoolccg

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HSJ Clinical Commissioning Group of the Year 2016

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