Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved :-

(i)            to consider and agree the Integration Joint Board’s (IJB) Audited Accounts for 2020/21, as attached at Appendix A;

(ii)          to instruct Officers to submit the approved audited accounts to NHS Grampian and Aberdeen City Council;

(iii)         to instruct the Chief Finance Officer to sign the representation letter, as attached at Appendix B; and

(iv)         to instruct the Chief Finance Officer to review the ACHSCP Digital Strategy at a future Workshop.

The Committee had before it the report from the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), ACHSCP which presented the IJB Audited Accounts for 2020/2021.

Members heard of the challenging financial activities in consequence of pandemic delivery and that monies in connection with the pandemic had been treated as directed by Scottish Government direction.

Members were advised that the high level of reserve funds was due to funding being received which was required to be spent during the next financial year, some of which was aligned to the pandemic funding arrangements.

The CFO wished to reinforce that the IJB was not in possession of a large balance of ‘spare funding’ and that anticipated continued pandemic demands together with financial scrutiny and savings, would still be applied during the next year. This would see a reduction in reserve funding to more normal levels.

KPMG provided assurance to Members that these statements were correct and a common theme to all IJB’s throughout Scotland.

The report recommended :-

that the Committee -

a)            consider and agree the Integration Joint Board’s (IJB) Audited Accounts for 2020/21, as attached at Appendix A;

b)            instruct Officers to submit the approved audited accounts to NHS Grampian and Aberdeen City Council; and

c)            instruct the Chief Finance Officer to sign the representation letter, as attached at Appendix B.

The Committee resolved :-

(i)            to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)          to instruct the Chief Finance Officer to review the ACHSCP Digital Strategy at a future Workshop.