Agenda and supporting papers - Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
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Item 18, Annex 1<br />
June. However, work was well ahead <strong>and</strong> had not identified any<br />
areas of concern. There had been a small number of trivial errors.<br />
Mr Barber wished to record his thanks to Mr Teape, Mrs Wilson <strong>and</strong> to<br />
their team, who had produced comprehensive working <strong>papers</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
with whom they had worked to produce a very positive outcome. This<br />
outcome confirmed his audit planning assumptions that the <strong>Trust</strong> was<br />
a low risk organisation.<br />
D<br />
Mr Barber stated that he was satisfied that the <strong>Trust</strong> had in place<br />
arrangements to secure economy, efficiency <strong>and</strong> effectiveness, with<br />
the exception of Financial Resilience. For this reason it was intended<br />
to issue a qualified ‘except for’ conclusion on the <strong>Trust</strong>’s<br />
arrangements for securing economy, efficiency <strong>and</strong> effectiveness in its<br />
use of resources. His<br />
R<br />
firm had been proposing to issue an ‘emphasis<br />
of matter’ conclusion in recognition of the <strong>Trust</strong> Board setting a deficit<br />
budget for 2013/14. However, confirmation had been received from<br />
the <strong>Trust</strong> Development Authority of their willingness to underwrite the<br />
deficit <strong>and</strong> there was now no longer any requirement to issue an<br />
‘emphasis of matter’ conclusion.<br />
A<br />
Mr Barber confirmed that his firm would report on the outcome of their<br />
external assurance work on the <strong>Trust</strong>’s Quality Account prior to<br />
issuing their opinion on the financial statements <strong>and</strong> issuing their VFM<br />
conclusion for the year.<br />
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F<br />
Annual Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013<br />
The Committee noted the draft report.<br />
Mr Teape presented the Annual Accounts (Annex 1) to the Committee<br />
for scrutiny, together with a statement of comprehensive income for<br />
2012/13, showing movement from 2011/12 (Annex 2), a Going<br />
Concern Review (Annex 3) <strong>and</strong> draft Letter of Representation.<br />
T<br />
Mr Douglas queried whether there had been any significant changes<br />
to format, style or content this year <strong>and</strong> Mrs Wilson confirmed that<br />
there had not. Since circulating the accounts there had been some<br />
minor amendments to the narrative but these were not of a material<br />
nature.<br />
Mr Warren queried whether the financial statements aligned with the<br />
management accounts. Mr Teape <strong>and</strong> Mrs Wilson confirmed that this<br />
was the case. Mr Warren sought, <strong>and</strong> received, clarification of the<br />
information set out in section 9.4 of the accounts. Mr Teape stated<br />
that the <strong>Trust</strong> did not make payments outside contractual terms.<br />
The Committee reviewed <strong>and</strong> approved the Annual Governance<br />
Statement set out on pages 3 to 10 of the accounts.<br />
There were no other queries on the financial statements.<br />
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