About Us

Principia is a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) within the NHS. It brings together a powerful coalition of 16 local general practices, community health professionals (including nurses and therapists), and the local registered population (122,000 patients), in a social enterprise vehicle which is grounded in public service values.

Commissioning is the process of assessing local health needs, identifying the services required to meet those needs and then buying those services from a wide range of healthcare providers, which can include hospitals, pharmacies and voluntary organisations.

Clinical Commissioning offers front-line clinicians, such as doctors and community nurses, the opportunity to play a major role in the development and delivery of strategies and activities that improve local health and well-being.

Due to it’s status as a social enterprise, Principia has managed to ensure that patients are represented at every level of the organisation, with members of the public on the Principia board, the Patient Reference Group (a group of patients that steers the work of Principia from a patient perspective) and a wide-reaching Health Network of members of the public that have an interest in local health issues.