Issue - meetings

The Board resolved :-

(i)    to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)   to cancel meetings of the Risk Audit and Performance Committee and the Clinical Care Governance Committee until further notice.

The Board had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Governance, Aberdeen City Council (ACC) which the Chair intimated was a late submission and was accepted as urgent business.

The report recommended :-

that the Board -

(a)             approve a new temporary Standing Order 11 (SO11) (with the existing Standing Order 11 becoming Standing Order 12 and so on) as contained in paragraph 4.1 of the report and instruct the Chief Officer to make the relevant amendments to the Standing Orders as a result of this change and instruct the Chief Officer, as part of the annual governance review, to consider whether this should become a permanent addition;

(b)             agree to suspend Standing Order (8)(2) to make SO11 effective immediately; and

(c)              agree to temporarily remove Standing Order 14(5) with immediate effect, as this will be replaced with the new temporary SO11.

The Board heard that the purpose of the report was to facilitate and enable decision-making in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and UK and Scottish Government advice for people to restrict social contact.

The Board heard that the Chair and Vice-Chair of the IJB, together with the Chairs of the Risk Audit and Performance and Clinical Care Governance Committee had discussed that the Committees be cancelled and that all Urgent Only Business should be arranged in discussion with the respective Chief Officer/Chief Financial Officer and the respective Chairs and progressed via a Board meeting.

The Board resolved :-

(i)    to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)   to cancel meetings of the Risk Audit and Performance Committee and the Clinical Care Governance Committee until further notice.