{"id":579,"date":"2012-10-03T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=579"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:04:52","slug":"volunteers-needed-scrutinising-ccgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/10\/03\/volunteers-needed-scrutinising-ccgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers needed! scrutinising CCGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-19674838\"><img src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/62284000\/gif\/_62284477_nhs_structure_1notitle.gif\" alt=\"CCG structure image from BBC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year a collection of new groups <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-19674838\">will be given responsibility for \u00a360bn of public health spending in England<\/a>:\u00a0Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).<\/p>\n<p>With over 200 of these groups and very few health journalists in the UK there&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>an opportunity for student journalists and concerned citizens to play a key role<\/strong>\u00a0in understanding what CCGs do &#8211; and scrutinising their activities.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of potential avenues to explore, from concerns about potential conflicts of interest in the new arrangements, to issues of accountability, whistleblowing, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with a number of news organisations and universities,\u00a0<strong>we&#8217;re building a network<\/strong>\u00a0of journalists, students and citizens to start pulling together information, exchanging tips and leads, and pursuing questions in the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get involved, contact me on\u00a0<strong>paul@helpmeinvestigate.com<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dER4eW5jSDFfaTJDQmtmdnRTeTkxV3c6MQ\">add your name via the form here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*image\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-19674838\">from the BBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Volunteers+needed%21+scrutinising+CCGs+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D579\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Volunteers+needed%21+scrutinising+CCGs+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D579\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year a collection of new groups will be given responsibility for \u00a360bn of public health spending in England:\u00a0Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). With over 200 of these groups and very few health journalists in the UK there&#8217;s\u00a0an opportunity for student &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/10\/03\/volunteers-needed-scrutinising-ccgs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[193,243,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}