Practices have rebelled against a plan for their local clinical commissioning group to take full responsibility for primary care, it has been reported.

Members of the Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group have voted to reject the advice of their governing body that it was ready to take on the responsibility.

The CCG already has joint responsibility with NHS England for commissioning primary care services.

But its practices became alarmed that taking on the full budgets would lead to cash being siphoned from primary care to acute services.

The Croydon local medical committee suggested that the CCG had failed to demonstrate advantages from taking over full responsibilities.

Its chief executive Julius Parker told the Health Service Journal: “We did say if the CCG was so keen then they would be able to explain why it would be so appropriate and helpful.

“I think if it had been able to make the case then they would have been able to secure the support of GPs in Croydon.”

CCG chair Anthony Brzezicki said: “Clearly there are some significant anxieties within a number of our practises and we are doing our best to address them.

“Concerns when we discussed this last year were varied but included that because of our financial position and our history of low allocation, that GP funding would be used to subsidise acute spend.”