NHS England has rated the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group as ‘inadequate’.  The CCG is responsible for planning, organising and purchasing NHS funded healthcare for residents of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.  NHS England has criticised the CCG’s leadership and finance and told it to improve its performance and planning.

In response, a spokesman for the CCG said it is ‘fully committed to returning the CCG and the health system to a sustainable financial position’, and went on:

2015/16 was a very difficult year for the CCG as we have dealt with a number of significant financial and contractual issues. The CCG has made many changes… but there is still a lot more for us to do to address our underlying recurrent deficit.

[Source: BBC Cambridgeshire]