East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG is a NHS organisation created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. We operate from offices at Thurmaston in Leicester and employed 84 staff as at end March 2015. We organise the delivery of NHS services for patients covered by 32 GP member practices across three localities: • Melton Mowbray, Rutland and Market Harborough • Oadby and Wigston, and • Blaby and Lutterworth. We do this by 'commissioning' or buying health and care services including: • Planned hospital care • Urgent and emergency care • Rehabilitation care • Community health services • Non-urgent patient transport Our area of operations contains: • 5 community hospitals • 2 large acute providers • 2 local authorities • 4 district/borough councils We commission acute services from out-of-county Trusts and a range of independent sector providers such as Spire Leicester, Nuffield Leicester and Nations Healthcare, based at the Nottingham Treatment Centre.