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Following the publication of the Government White Paper “Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS” in July 2010, at the H&W Whole Cluster Meeting held at the Springwood Community Centre, Waterlooville, on Tuesday 7th December 2010, the PBC Executive Board presented their recommendations covering the transformation of locally managed PBC and the development of a GPCC model that would represent the current Cluster members on the dissolution of NHS Hampshire in 2013.

Since then, the H&W PBC Locality has merged with the former East Hampshire PBC Locality, initially as the A3 GP-led Commissioning Group, to form a single group representing the interests of some 211,000 registered patients and 30 GP practices from Liphook in the north to Hayling Island in the south and Denmead in the west to Emsworth in the east of our patch.  Some 150 square miles straddling the A3 as it passes north to south through Hampshire.

More recently, and following direction from the Department of Health, this group has renamed itself the South Eastern Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group (SEH CCG). Led by 6 elected GPs representing our 30 practices and an Executive Director appointed by the SHIP* PCT Cluster, the group is now progressing the development of its submission for authorisation and building the governance and clinical infrastructure to enable it to assume responsibility as a statutory body in time for the dissolution of the PCT at 1 April 2013.

In view of this reform programme, the H&W PBC web site has now served its purpose and will no longer function as a communication tool of the group.  A new web site will be launched in the near future, under the SEH CCG banner, from which we will publicise our news and business activities for the benefit of our stakeholders.