South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

About us Our duties We are responsible for commissioning (planning and buying) NHS services for the people who live and work in South West London. With our budget of more than £2.3 billion the services we are responsible for commissioning include: • The services you use in your GP surgery • Community health services • Urgent and emergency care • Hospital outpatient and inpatient services, diagnostics and planned procedures • Rehabilitation services • Mental health services • Learning disabilities services Most of the services we commission are provided in South West London, though we also commission some services from our partners in neighbouring areas. All the services we commission are free at the point of use for everybody. Our CCG is a membership organisation made up of over 180 GP practices within South West London. We serve just under 1.7 million people across our six diverse boroughs: • Croydon • Kingston • Merton • Richmond • Sutton • Wandsworth Our constitution Our CCG constitution sets out our responsibilities for commissioning care for patients. It also sets out the rules and procedures we follow to ensure probity and accountability in the day to day running of the CCG. This is to ensure that decisions are taken in an open and transparent way and that the interests of patients and the public remain central. You can read or constitution and standing orders on our website at https:// swlondonccg.nhs.uk/about/constitution/ You can also read the Handbook to the NHS constitution on our website. This explains each right and pledge in the NHS Constitution and the legal sources of both patient and staff rights and outlines the roles we all play in protecting and developing the NHS. Becoming one South West London Clinical Commissioning Group NHS South West London CCG was formed on 1 April 2020, in a merger of the six previous South West London borough CCGs: Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth. Our ambition was for each borough to continue to bring together health and care leaders in a local system to ensure that they remained clinically led and retained the ability to engage 12 | NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group