Issue - meetings

Please note there is an exempt appendix contained within the Private Section of this agenda below.

The Board resolved:-

(i)            to note the progress to date of the relocation of the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre from the John Lewis building to Unit 19, Bon Accord Aberdeen;

(ii)          to note the adoption of community based preventative approaches as set out in the Strategic Plan summary as per section 3.7.2 of the report;

(iii)         to approve the agreed approach of expanding from a Vaccination Centre to a Priority Intervention Hub Model (as set out in section 3.6 of the report) at the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre to ensure best use of resources and to mirror the hub model within other areas of Aberdeen City;

(iv)         to rename the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre so that it was now called the ‘Aberdeen City Vaccination & Wellbeing Hub’ based on response from public feedback as detailed in section 3.14 of the report;

(v)          to approve the extension of the current lease of the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre at Unit 19 Bon Accord Aberdeen for a further year from 10 May 2024 until 9 May 2025;

(vi)         to make the Direction attached at Appendix 1 of the report to NHS Grampian;

(vii)        to instruct the Chief Officer of the IJB to issue the Direction to NHS Grampian; and

(viii)       to instruct the Chief Officer of the IJB to make and implement any reasonable and necessary arrangements in furtherance of (v) (vi) and (vii) above.

The Board had before it a report prepared by the Programme Manager, Lead Nurse - Immunisations & CTAC and the Lead for People and Organisation, providing an update on the relocation of the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre and seeking approval to extend the lease of Unit 19 within the Bon Accord Centre.

The report recommended:-

that the Board:

(a)          note the progress to date of the relocation of the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre from the John Lewis building to Unit 19, Bon Accord Aberdeen;

(b)          note the adoption of community based preventative approaches as set out in the Strategic Plan summary as per section 3.7.2 of the report;

(c)          approve the agreed approach of expanding from a Vaccination Centre to a Priority Intervention Hub Model (as set out in section 3.6 of the report) at the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre to ensure best use of resources and to mirror the hub model within other areas of Aberdeen City;

(d)          rename the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre so that it was now called the ‘Aberdeen City Vaccination & Wellbeing Hub’ based on response from public feedback as detailed in section 3.14 of the report;

(e)          approve the extension of the current lease of the Aberdeen City Vaccination Centre at Unit 19 Bon Accord Aberdeen for a further year from 10 May 2024 until 9 May 2025;

(f)           make the Direction attached at Appendix 1 of the report to NHS Grampian;

(g)          instruct the Chief Officer of the IJB to issue the Direction to NHS Grampian; and

(h)          instruct the Chief Officer of the IJB to make and implement any reasonable and necessary arrangements in furtherance of (e), (f) and (g) above.

The Board resolved:-

to agree the recommendations.