NHS Leeds West CCG, NHS Leeds North CCG and NHS Leeds South & East CCG AQP Minor Surgery Services.

The National strategy of providing care closer to home has led the commissioners to transfer services where appropriate out of secondary to primary care settings. In the case of minor surgery, the service is commissioned in such a way as to achieve three key goals :- • Ensuring equality of access so that Leeds patients who are registered with general practices who do not participate in the minor surgery DES, still have access to those services through referral to a community minor surgery provider of their choice...