The Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is part of the NHS and they are responsible for planning and buying local health services. This process is known as ‘commissioning’. They have an annual budget of approx. £447 million to spend on healthcare for people living in the districts of Maldon, Braintree and the City of Chelmsford.

The health services they buy include:

• Community services such as district nursing, speech and language therapy, podiatry, community hospitals and stroke rehabilitation.
• Mental health services including psychological therapies, children and young adult mental health support and learning disability services.
• Non-emergency patient transport.
• Continuing health care for people requiring ongoing NHS support.
• Some additional services provided by local GP practices.
• And, jointly with other CCGs, acute hospital services, integrated urgent care including NHS 111 and emergency ambulance transport.

The CCG brings together 44 GP practices in the mid Essex area. Their GP member practices elect GPs who are part of our governing body including our Chair and Vice Chair. All GPs in their local area are closely involved in designing the CCG’s plans through regular discussions. You can read profiles of our Board members here.

They also have a network of patient participation groups (PPGs). PPGs are run locally by volunteer patients and practice managers and help strengthen the relationship between GP practices and their patients. PPGs contribute ideas, feedback and suggestions directly to their practices. You can join our PPG at The Pump House Surgery by completing our Patient Participation Group Registration form.

They serve 392,000 people who live in the districts Braintree District, Chelmsford City and Maldon District, which together make up mid Essex.

Mid Essex CCG is based in Chelmsford and employs around 150 members of staff across five directorates, clinical commissioning and transformation, nursing and quality, governance and performance, finance and the Mid and South Essex STP Joint Committee.

Their work

They want everyone to live as independently as possible but, when needed, to get joined up care with the best outcome. They know that the population in mid Essex is growing at a higher rate than the national average; that the population is ageing and more people have long-term illness.

That’s why they want to continue working with our partners and providers across health, social care, housing and the voluntary sector to support people when they need it the most. To help you stay well in mid Essex, they are focusing on developing plans that will create services to follow phases of life:

Startwell

Giving every child in mid Essex the best possible start in life. To improve maternity and children services and support families pre-birth; throughout childhood; adolescence and into adult life.

Bewell

Helping you make healthy lifestyle choices and access to services when you need it.

Staywell

Supporting the residents with long term illnesses and planning services that help you continue to stay healthly, both mentally and physically.

Agewell

Live healthily and happily for longer. Allowing you to plan and co-ordinate your care to remain independent for as long as possible.

Diewell

Helping you to make choices about the end of life and experience a dignified death. All of these are supported and connected by Connect Well, the social prescribing initiative for mid Essex