Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership sets 2017-18 budget
Chief Officer Adam Coldwells has recorded a message for all employees in the Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership
A transcript of the video is copied below.
At their meeting yesterday, the Integration Joint Board agreed a budget of £276m for all of the services we deliver in Aberdeenshire.
Although it is substantial amount of money it will undoubtedly feel challenging to deliver all we do. In order to deliver a balanced budget we will all have to be part of working towards our financial position as part of the great work you do every single day.
The budget we presented to IJB was around the Strategic Plan we previously identified. It is essential we build our work around that progressive view of how we deliver services long in to the future in a sustainable manner
There are two key things I would like people to think about as they work towards our budget position
1. Productivity and Efficiency
First is how we all work day in and day out both efficiently and greater productivity. We are undertaking work in Kincardine & Mearns to explore productivity in a different way. What can we achieve as teams come together integrated teams across Aberdeenshire. Some of the initial work has been promising.
Practitioners will be able to spend more time working with clients and patients trying to remove the bureaucracy. As we do that better our efficiency rises so our ability to do work becomes more affordable within the envelope of money we have.
2. Redesign Services
Second key theme is about how we redesign services – this is not new thing, we spend lots of time redesigning things so we have a long term future. What are the things that will allow us to redesign pathways of care and make these more sustainable for our long term delivery model.
The Virtual Community Ward is a great example. This is where people take the opportunity to work together around the most vulnerable people we have has shown great results. Through this work many many people were not admitted to hospital, when most of them previously would have been admitted to community hospitals or Foresterhill and ARI . The initial results look exciting and if we can continue that and redesign other things in similar way then we will manage very well within the £276m budget
I want all of you to be part of this – every single person in the partnership to be part of delivering not only the great care you do anyway but to think how we can do this within the financial envelope we have available to us
As you do keep in mind the five key aspects of our vision
- Asset based approach
- High quality services
- Person Centred maner
- Support people to be as independent as possible
- Keep people in and as close to community as possible
Please use this vison as the pegs of how we do our work every single day. If you want to ask anything please contact us we will be delighted to hear from you.
Adam Coldwells
Chief Officer