Twenty-five regional commissioning support units submitted outline business plans in 2012 to NHS England which hosted them.
[3] Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit was criticised by Liz Kendall MP who said it should no longer run NHS continuing healthcare services for patients with complex needs and that it only had one part-time person monitoring the quality of all its home care providers.
[9] Seven organisations were accredited to provide CCGs with support: in 2013/4 NHS England paid £125m for services from the 19 CSUs operational in that year.
[11] A tendering exercise for the services supplied by the Yorkshire and Humber commissioning support unit was delayed in September 2015 because of lack of interest by potential suppliers in the contract, valued at £20 million pa.
It appeared that the CCGs were planning to take a lot of the work in house, as the existing contract amounted to £85 million pa.[12] The North of England Commissioning Support Unit is to be converted into a community interest company owned by the 11 clinical commissioning groups covering the North East and Cumbria.