Agenda and decisions

to note the Chair’s remarks.

Members are requested to intimate any Declarations of Interest or Transparency Statements

There were no declarations of interest or transparency statements.

Members are requested to determine that any exempt business be considered with the press and public excluded

to consider the exempt appendices during consideration of items 9.1 and 9.2 with the press and public excluded so as to avoid disclosure of exempt information of the class described in paragraphs 6 and 9 of Schedule 7A of the Act.

to note the video.

to approve the minute as a correct record.

to approve the minute as a correct record.

to note the minute.

to note the minute.

(i)            to agree to add the following reports to the Planner: (1) Draft Strategic Plan on 19 November 2024 and (2) Final Strategic Plan on 18 March 2025;

(ii)          to otherwise agree the Planner.

(i)            to agree to add a session on the National Care Service to the Topic Specific Seminars planner;

(ii)          to note the information provided; and

(iii)         to otherwise agree the Planners.

(i)            to agree to add updates regarding the National Care Service as a standing item in the Chief Officer’s report;

(ii)          to instruct the People and Organisation Lead to provide a summary report following the NHS Event taking place on 10 June 2024 where the theme was Planning for the Future: Delivering Health and Care Services through Innovation and Collaboration; and

(iii)         to otherwise note the detail contained within the report.

(i)            to instruct Officers, in relation to the Community Engagement Guidance, to consider the use of alternative formats of engagement to ensure wider accessibility and to list a range of options available to stakeholders within the Guidance;

(ii)          to note the progress report in relation to the Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Framework as attached at Appendix A of the report;

(iii)         to approve the revised ‘Assessing the Impact of Policies and Practices’  as attached at Appendix B of the report; and

(iv)         to approve the revised ‘Our Guidance for Community Engagement, Human Rights and Equalities’ as attached at Appendix C of the report.

(i)            to note the report in relation to the IJB budget and the information on areas of risk and management action that were contained therein;

(ii)          to approve the budget virements indicated in Appendix D of the report;

(iii)         to approve the use of uncommitted reserves to balance the final year-end position as described at paragraph 3.4 of the report; and

(iv)         to instruct the Chief Officer to ensure that the scope of the planned internal audit on Budget Setting and Monitoring included the funding of the IJB and governance around how changes were made during the year, and how decisions were made regarding the use of IJB reserves and balances. Therefore to receive recommendations on what could be done to mitigate changes made to the year-end position for 2023/24 described in the report, happening again.

to note the progress made in further embedding the IJB’s resilience arrangements during 2023/24.

(i)            to instruct the Transformation and Strategy Lead to investigate recommissioning the Research Project in 12-18 months’ time;

(ii)          to note that the Project report would be reviewed at the IJB Culture Sounding Board;

(iii)         to note the Consolidated Report Summarised attached at Appendix A of the report and the analysis contained within paragraphs 4.9 and 4.10; and

(iv)         to approve the proposed actions to be taken as a result of the project findings, noted within the Culture Sounding Board Commitments and Progress document at Appendix B of the report.

(i)            to note the overall advancements achieved over the past 18 months since the initial report was presented to the IJB on 29 November 2022;

(ii)          to note the specific advancements and advantages resulting from the two-year Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) funding;

(iii)         to direct the Chief Officer to continue to mitigate health inequalities in Primary Care, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council, NHS Grampian Public Health, and Primary Care General Practice; and

(iv)         to instruct the Chief Officer to proceed with an options appraisal and report back to the meeting of the IJB scheduled for 4 February 2025, outlining the future trajectory of the Marywell Practice.

Please note that there are exempt appendices contained within the Private Section of this agenda below.

(i)            to approve a tender for a period of up to seven years and subsequent award of contract for Care and Support at Home Services, as detailed in Appendices A1 and C of the report; and

(ii)          to make the Direction, as attached at Appendix B of the report, and instruct the Chief Officer to issue the Direction to Aberdeen City Council.

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

(i)            to note the Morse Evaluation appended at Appendix B of the report;

(ii)          to approve a further three year contract with Cambric, running from October 2024, to supply Morse as an Electronic Patient Record for Community Nursing, Hospital at Home, Macmillan Nursing, Health Visiting and School Nursing Services; and

(iii)         to make the direction attached at Appendix C of the report, and instruct the Chief Officer to issue the Direction to NHS Grampian.

(i)            to note that the Vice Chair advised that he had a connection in relation to the item by virtue of him being a Member of the Diverse Experiences Advisory Panel, however having applied the objective test, he did not consider that he had an interest and would not be withdrawing from the meeting;

(ii)          to note the update of the General Adult Mental Health Secondary Care Pathway Review, provided in the Summary Report attached at Appendix A of the report; and

(iii)         to note the findings and recommendations of the General Adult Mental Health Secondary Care Pathway review as outlined in Section 4 of the report.

(i)            to note that the Chair advised that he had a connection in relation to the item by virtue of him being an observer on the Board of Sport Aberdeen, however having applied the objective test, he did not consider that he had an interest and would not be withdrawing from the meeting;

(ii)          to note the progress of the project;

(iii)         to approve the approach to further embed the learnings across other hubs; and

(iv)         to approve to change the term of “Priority Intervention Hubs” to “Health and Wellbeing Hubs”.

to note the information contained within the exempt appendices.

to note the information contained within the exempt appendix.

·         Culture

·         Primary Care

·         Annual Performance Report (Timeline & Approach)

·         Strategic Plan (Timeline & Approach)

·         New Chief Officer

to note the date of the IJB Insights Session.

·         Update on work on reducing Prescribing Spend (10:00 - 11:00)

·         Health and Care Staffing Act (11:00 - 12:00)

to note the date of the Topic Specific Seminar.

to note the date of the next meeting.