In a speech at the Westminster Health Forum – Developing clinical senates and networks: commissioning, integration and efficiency – to be held today in London, Dr Donal Hynes, co-vice chair of the NHS Alliance, will reiterate the need for clinical senates and networks to support CCG's localism.

As the National Commissioning Board gets into action and Clinical Commissioning Groups struggle with the requirements of becoming a statutory organisation, the greatest danger has become not that we are about to see the destruction of the National Health Service as we know it but that nothing much will happen.

The NHS Clinical Commissioning Coalition (NHS CC) has published its mandate today. The Coalition, which was set up by the NHS Alliance and NAPC, is committed to supporting and championing Clinical Commissioning Groups as they carve their place in the new NHS.

Rick Stern has been appointed new chief executive for the organisation with effect from April 2012. He will work alongside Julie Wood, NHS Alliance's National Director of Clinical Commissioning, as part of a new leadership team, who will report to chairman Michael Dixon.

In January 2012, the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) and the NHS Alliance (NHSA) issued a short survey on commissioning support for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

NHS Alliance/NAPC Clinical Commissioning Coalition's response to NHS Commissioning Board update.

The new urgent care telephone number NHS 111 may have the potential to bring real benefits to the health care system but, according to a recent NHS Alliance survey, is in danger of 'getting lost in translation'.

If clinical commissioning is on the statute book by the end of the spring then clinical commissioning is going to happen. Or is it?

Policy on the role of specialist doctors in the NHS reforms is not fit for purpose, according to a discussion paper published by the NHS Alliance.

The NHS Alliance has welcomed the Future Forum report which recommends that patients should have access to their health records online and the government's commitment to make primary care records accessible from 2015.