The commissioning plan sets out in detail how South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group intends to lead clinical commissioning in South Tyneside during 2012-13, paving the way to full authorisation and statutory body status from April 2013.

Click here to view the commissioning plan 2012-2017.

Strategic Objectives:

• Seamless planned care pathways of care, integrated within and across organisations
• Streamlined urgent care services with a single point of access
• Partnership delivery of personalised care and independent living for patients with long term conditions
• Personalised care plans in mental health based on a stepped care approach with timely access to services
• Improve the quality of prescribing and deliver agreed efficiencies