The Governing Bodies of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups have today considered the outcome of the GP membership vote on the proposals to create a Single Strategic Commissioning Organisation and agreed that an application to merge the CCGs will NOT be made to NHS England.

This means that the Governing Bodies will continue to meet in common and make decisions that affect the whole 1.1million population collectively but will remain as separate legal entities. The executive team will continue to work across the six organisations and work to create further efficiencies by doing things once rather than six times where it makes sense to do so.