The fire safety policy is available to all employees in order to help them become aware of potential fire risks and hazards. The fire safety policy also informs employees of what to do in the outbreak of a fire and how best to ensure the safety of employees and others.

The CCG wishes to ensure that all office environments within its operations are both managed and used in a manner that is conducive to the safety of all CCG employees and other parties who may have cause to work in the offices, for whatever reason.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of CCG staff and other persons, for example contractors, visitors, general public who may be affected by CCG’s activities including travelling on CCG business and at non NHS sites.

This policy describes the scope of volunteering within the CCG and the approach of the CCG to the management of volunteers that provides them with support to undertake this valuable role.

This document sets out NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group’s policy and procedure for CCG employees, Governing Body and Committee members and contractors to declare gifts, hospitality, commercial sponsorship to ensure the requirements of the Bribery Act 2010 dealing with the requirements of the Bribery Act 2010. This document should be read in conjunction with the CCG’s Conflicts of Interest Policy.

The policy sets out how the CCG manages conflicts of interest in order to protect the integrity of NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin CCG from perceptions of wrongdoing.

The policy sets out how the CCG deals with concerns raised.

This Business Continuity Plan describes how NHS Shropshire Commissioning Group (CCG) will discharge its functions in the event of a major incident that causes serious interruption of business operations involving one or more sections/service areas. This is a corporate level business continuity plan which would be implemented when any incident cannot be contained and managed within a single section/directorate/service area.

We are committed to improving quality outcomes for our residents.

Since the advent of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning safe, cost effective and high quality services.

The NHS Patient Safety Strategy: safer culture, safer systems, safer patients, published in 2019, highlights the importance of continuously improving and maintaining a clear focus on quality of care, to enable us to always strive for the best.

We have ambition for all of our providers to achieve good and beyond ratings at Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection and will be working hard to support them in succeeding with this, helping to make our health care system safe and sustainable.

Maintaining and improving quality and safety must be the organising principle of our healthcare services, informed by our understanding of the population we serve and the constraints under which our system operates.

We are committed to reducing healthcare associated infections.

This commitment is demonstrated through the inclusion of an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Team in the CCG’s quality structure.

We expect services we commission to comply with specific regulations. In relation to Infection Prevention and Control the expectation is that services will be delivered as set out in The Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance.

The IPC team is responsible for monitoring the quality and standards of infection prevention and control in local healthcare services including Acute (hospital/treatment centres) and Community Services.

The team is also responsible for supporting continuous quality improvement in relation to infection prevention within primary care services and the independent care sector, including nursing and residential care homes.

The CCG is required to follow and recognise a number of national policies and other requirements relating to NHS Finance.

For example, it follows the financial reporting requirements for the whole of Government set by the Treasury, and the specific requirements of the Department of Health and NHS England within this overall accounting framework.

The CCG participates in a number of shared financial service arrangements, under which the CCG contracts with providers through an agreed service level which is underpinned by the professional policies and standards maintained by those providers.

The CCG uses the national accounting platform and accounting services provided by NHS Shared Business Services. The CCG has also engaged the Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, which provides a range of financial services.

In addition, the CCG has put in place a number of detailed financial policies covering:

• Asset Management and Safeguarding
• Losses and Special Payments
• Lost and Found Property
• Budgetary Control
• Establishment Control
• Employee Expenses
• Payment Card

Other Finance Related Policies

• Declaration of Gifts, Hospitality and Sponsorship – Anti-Bribery Policy and Procedure (Jan 2018)
  This document sets out Shropshire CCG’s policy and procedure for dealing with the requirements of the Bribery Act 2010, regarding the acceptance of gifts, hospitality and corporate sponsorship.
• Joint working with the pharmaceutical industry (including rebate schemes) and commercial sponsorship of meetings and training events – Policy and Guidance (June 2018)
  This document provides a framework to assist the organisation and NHS staff in determining when commercial sponsorship or a joint agreement is appropriate when working with the pharmaceutical industry.