Agenda item

The Board had before it a report by Gail Woodcock (Integrated Localities Programme Manager, ACHSCP) which requested approval for projects which sit within the Partnership’s Transformation Programme.

The report recommended:-

That the Board –

(a)          Approve expenditure of £2,219,000 in relation to the establishment of a Hospital at Home Service;

(b)          Approve expenditure of up to £243,130 (total for two years) relating to enhancing the Third Sector Contribution to Integrated Services Project through the provision of a grant to ACVO, subject to State Aid assessments;

(c)          Approve expenditure of £284,700 (over four years) required for the District Nurse Training project;

(d)          Approve expenditure of £296,000 (over two years) for the Enhanced Pharmacy Support project;

(e)          Approve expenditure of £1,121,378 (over two years) in support of the Testing Buurtzorg Principles in Neighbourhood Teams project;

(f)           Note that a robust business case process is in place and that each project will have a clear business case which sets out key milestones for delivery benefits realisation and performance metrics; and

(g)          Instruct the Chief Officer to issue Directions attached at Appendix F-K to Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian as appropriate once the full business case for each project has been approved by the Executive Programme Board and append the business cases with each Direction.

The Chief Officer explained that the individual projects outlined in the report would support the Board’s strategic ambitions and if so agreed, the Board would be required to set Directions to partner organisations to deliver these projects.

The Chair reminded members that the strategic objectives had been agreed in principle and the Board was being asked to approve the use of resource for individual projects which would support these strategic objectives.

Gail Woodcock summarised the five projects set out within the report and advised that if the Board agreed to incur expenditure, detailed business cases would be developed and these would be submitted to the Executive Programme Board for scrutiny and approval. She noted that the Programme Board had been established to support the development and delivery of the Partnership’s Transformation Programme.

Thereafter there were questions on district nursing succession planning; the Buurtzorg Model; affordable housing for key workers; the development of indicators during the business planning process to monitor performance and delivery; the impact on funding levels for acute services as a result of systemic change; the involvement of service users during the consultation process; the use of Integrated Care and Transformation Funding to support the delivery of the projects; and the role of the Audit and Performance Systems Committee to provide assurance to the Board on project governance and implementation.

The Board resolved:-

(i)            to approve expenditure of £2,219,000 in relation to the establishment of a Hospital at Home Service;

(ii)           to approve expenditure of up to £243,130 (total for two years) relating to enhancing the Third Sector Contribution to Integrated Services Project through the provision of a grant to ACVO, subject to State Aid assessments;

(iii)         to approve expenditure of £284,700 (over four years) required for the District Nurse Training project;

(iv)         to approve expenditure of £296,000 (over two years) for the Enhanced Pharmacy Support project;

(v)           to approve expenditure of £1,121,378 (over two years) in support of the Testing Buurtzorg Principles in Neighbourhood Teams project;

(vi)         to task the Audit and Performance Systems Committee with providing ongoing assurance to the Board that the aforementioned business cases were being developed through a thorough and robust process; and

(vii)        to instruct the Chief Officer to issue Directions attached at Appendix F-K to Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian as appropriate once the full business case for each project has been approved by the Executive Programme Board and append the business cases with each Direction.