All but seven Leeds practices in emerging clinical commissioning groups

The four are Leeds Alliance, Leodis, Calibre and H3plus.

The PCT said: “At the current time, there are no formal plans for federating/grouping together of commissioning consortia in the area. The three groups already work collaboratively across the city and submitted a joint pathfinder [application] covering the three groups.

“The consortia have identified a particular focus from 1 April 2011 as being non-elective care and prescribing. Budgets have not been formally delegated to consortia at this time.

“[But] the consortia are key partners in the Leeds Transformation Programme, which is a city-wide agreement between health and social care partners to work together to deliver the challenges ahead, including increasing quality and innovation and productivity.”