Brennan Report - Department of Health and Children

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142Number Recommendation IT TimeframeRequirementsR8.6 The Department of Health and Children should publish on its website details of the performance of none immediatehealth boards/agencies in terms of meeting their financial accounting responsibilities, including:(i) Year end date;(ii) Date financial accounts/statements are finalised/submitted;(iii) Date audit completed (including Section 6(4) reports, if any, on the accounts);(iv) Details of organisations failing to meet their deadlines should be highlighted in anappropriate manner; and(v) Publish and widely circulate a report with commentary on performance annually by1 January each year i.e. 12 months after the period to which the report relates.R8.7 The Comptroller and Auditor General should lay before the Public Accounts Committee a report none immediate(with commentary) on performance in meeting accounting and auditing deadlines annually by1 January each year i.e. 12 months after the period to which the report relates.INTERNAL AUDITR8.8 The Secretary General of the Department of Health and Children, the board of the Executive, boards none asapof the regional health boards, boards of agencies and other bodies under the remit of health boardsand boards of other statutory agencies should ensure that there is an adequately resourced internalaudit function. Where it is considered inefficient, for reasons of scale, for an agency to have adedicated internal audit unit, the regional health boards should either provide the service centrallyor have the function outsourced. .R8.9 The internal audit unit should report directly to the non-executive Chairman of the audit committee none immediately following R8.1R8.10 The audit committee should determine powers and duties of the internal audit unit.. none immediately following R8.1R8.11 Internal audit reports should be made available to the external auditor. none immediateRISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENTR8.12 A systematic assessment of all risks (including financial, operational and clinical risks) must be a none n/acentral and integral part of all policy development and ongoing operational activity.Report of the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service
Number Recommendation IT TimeframeRequirements143R8.13 A Risk Assessment Unit should be established with immediate effect by the Secretary General of none immediatethe Department of Health and Children with the task of:(i) Supporting policy makers; and(ii) Driving the implementation of risk management policy and procedures down to local andagency levels.R8.14 In respect of R8.13(i) the role of the Risk Assessment Unit should be to: none See R8.13(i) Support in an integral and ongoing way national policy developments and negotiations;(ii) Provide technical support and advice to individual officers/sections on the identificationand management of risks at policy design stage;(iii) Advise on the design and execution of control measures to minimise risks; and(iv) Review the conduct of risk assessment procedures on new services/schemes within theDepartment of Health and Children.R8.15 In respect of R8.13(ii) the role of the Risk Assessment Unit should be to: none See R8.13(i) Develop, implement and communicate risk management strategy, policy and proceduresacross the health service;(ii) Develop and co-ordinate risk management information requirements, reporting thresholdsand mechanisms for determining priorities;(iii) Develop, promote and maintain common methodologies for identifying and assessing riskand determining adequacy and cost effectiveness of controls;(iv) Identify and assess accumulations of risk across the health serviceand interdependencies; and(v) Co-ordinate risk management activity, training and technical support, across the healthservice.R8.16 A working group should be established to bring forward a report on best practice in terms of risk none To commence immediatelyassessment and risk management in the health sector.and report within 6 monthsR8.17 The Risk Assessment Unit should make half-yearly reports to the Management Advisory Committee none See R8.13of the Department of Health and Children on the ongoing effectiveness of, and compliance with,national risk management policy.R8.18 Internal Audit Units in all health service agencies should make half-yearly reports to the Chairman none See R8.1 and R8.9of their local audit committees on the effectiveness of the risk management procedures in place intheir organisation.Any legislative amendments to facilitate this should be implemented.Addendum
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