Budget Engagement - Staff Views

Background information

The Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) is responsible for the delivery of millions of pounds worth of services annually. As you know the AHSCP delivers services as diverse as Home Care, Criminal Justice Social Work, Community Hospitals, Drugs and Alcohol Services, Care Homes, Community Nursing and many others across Aberdeenshire.

This year we will need to make somewhere in the region of £12.5 million worth of savings across all of our budgets and we would like to ensure that you have the opportunity to help steer how we make those savings and efficiencies. By filling in the short survey below you will help to guide the conversation.

None of us are immune to the increase in costs that we have experienced recently, and this is true for the AHSCP too - you can no doubt imagine how much our energy bills have increased recently across our Community Hospitals and Care Homes!

As the people delivering our services you will already be aware that the largest increase has been in the demand for our services much of which has been driven by an ageing population. We need to ensure that we are able to deliver person-centred, sustainable services long into the future and this will mean that we have to take some difficult decisions on priorities to make sure we can continue to deliver services for the most vulnerable and needy.

Giving your views

Update 30th May 2024

A survey was available to be completed until 26th February 2024. The responses received have been analysed and can be viewed in the appendices of the Integration Joint Board papers for 20th March 2024. Please view the Revenue Budget 2024/25 report, the public survey analysis is shown at item 6i / appendix 8 and staff survey analysis is show at item 6j / appendix 9.

We will build on this stage of engagement as we look ahead to developing our next Strategic Plan for the Health and Social Care Partnership.

For information around the engagement on Minor Injury Units - change of opening hours, please view: Minor Injury Units - Out of Hours | Engage Aberdeenshire

Any questions or suggestions?

If you have any questions that you would like to ask the senior team then please use the "Ask a Question" section below. Your question will be anonymous and we will not be able to answer it directly unless you add your email address. Questions that are anonymous will be used as the basis for an 'Ask Pam' video which we will share with you in due course.

Please use the "Do you have a Suggestion?" section to highlight your suggestions about how we might make savings and efficiencies.