Issue - meetings

The Board had before it a report by Judith Proctor which presented the final report from the Good Governance Institute (GGI) in respect of the work they had been commissioned to undertake on behalf of the then shadow Integration Joint Board in Aberdeen City.

The report recommended:-

that the Board –

(a)       Discuss the first draft GGI report in regard to the development of the IJB and its Committees up to, and over the go live period; and

(b)       Consider and agree the recommendations for action as set out in the report.

Hilary Merrett (GGI) spoke to the report and explained that the final report set out the areas in which the GGI had supported the Board, such as the development of a Board Assurance Framework and the Board’s risk appetite. She also highlighted the number of facilitated workshops which had informed the diagnostic process and strengthened Board dynamics. Ms Merrett advised that the GGI had produced eleven recommendations for the Board’s consideration which aimed to further strengthen the Board’s governance arrangements.

The Chair advised that he had found the workshop sessions to be particularly helpful in shaping the Board’s strategic direction and areas of transformational change and thereafter members thanked the GGI for their support during the integration process and welcomed their final report as a coherent and effective piece of work.

The Board resolved:-

(i)           to agree the recommendations for action as set out in the report and to request that the Chief Officer prepare an Action Plan on how these recommendations would be implemented; and

(ii)          to thank the GGI for their work in supporting health and social care integration in Aberdeen City.