STRUCTURE: Three CCGs in Lincolnshire are to merge to ensure their viability and improve their position for authorisation, the PCT was told.
East Lindsey, Boston Area, and Skegness and Coast CCGs will form one body with three independent localities.
The as yet unnamed CCG will commission for a population of just over 240,000.
January
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