CCG FOI 666 – Procedures of Low Clinical Value

Responded to: 22nd September 2016

Please state how many instances of each listed procedure were funded by the CCG each financial year from 2013/14 to 2015/16 inclusive. The data should be broken down by procedure by year.

2. Please state whether each listed procedure is covered by specific clinical commissioning criteria – these may be known as “Procedures of Low/Limited Clinical Value”, “Efficient Use of Resources”, or a similar term.

Stockport CCG’s  Effective Use of Resources (EUR) Treatment Policies lists those procedures that are not funded or where funding will only be made available if specific criteria are met. Details can be found on the Stockport CCG website: https://www.stockportccg.nhs.uk/about-us/treatment-available-on-the-nhs/

3. Where a listed procedure is covered by PLCV/EUR policies as referred to in question 2, please state the date the most recently adopted criteria for each procedure took effect. Where the CCG (or cluster of CCGs, where appropriate) has simply continued to use the predecessor PCT’s criteria, please state this to be the case.

Please see Question 2

4. Where the most recent PLCV/EUR clinical commissioning criteria for a procedure has been adopted since the CCG came into existence, please provide both the current criteria and the previous criteria that applied to that procedure.

Please see Question 2

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