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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 />

50/13<br />

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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