Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to note the Internal Audit (IA) Annual Report 2022/23;

(ii)            to note that the Chief Internal Auditor had confirmed the organisational independence of Internal Audit;

(iii)          to note that there had been no limitation to the scope of Internal Audit work during 2022/23; and

(iv)          to note the progress that management had made with implementing recommendations agreed in Internal Audit reports.

The Committee had before it the Internal Audit Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2023, prepared by the Chief Internal Auditor.

In respect of a question regarding Data Sharing arrangements across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray IJBs, the Business Manager advised that he had raised this with the Data Protection Officer for NHS Grampian and undertook to circulate an update to Members.

With regard to the four Major Recommendations across the four Internal Audit reports issued during 2022/23, assurance was provided by the Business Manager that specific Senior Management Team members had been assigned these Assurance Recommendations as actions and they were working with Internal Audit to close them off.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee:

(a)          note the Internal Audit (IA) Annual Report 2022/23;

(b)          note that the Chief Internal Auditor had confirmed the organisational independence of Internal Audit;

(c)          note that there had been no limitation to the scope of Internal Audit work during 2022/23; and

(d)          note the progress that management had made with implementing recommendations agreed in Internal Audit reports.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)            to note that an update on Data Sharing would be circulated; and

(ii)          to otherwise agree the recommendations.