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Commissioning groups need local knowledge, says RCP

As the Health and Social Care Bill goes to committee stage in the House of Lords, the RCP is calling for the government to guarantee that specialist doctors and nurses who sit on the boards of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) do not have to be from outside the local area.

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RCP comments on Lords EU sub-committee report Safety First

Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians, welcomed today’s report from the Lords EU sub-committee – ‘Safety First: Mobility of healthcare professionals in the EU, which addressed many of the RCP’s concerns about language competence and testing, and sharing of fitness to practice information between countries. He said: