The key focus of the assessment has been on the Health Board’s corporate arrangements for ensuring that resources are used efficiently, effectively, and economically, with a specific focus on Board transparency, cohesion, and effectiveness, corporate systems of assurance, corporate approach to planning, and corporate approach to financial management. We have not reviewed the Health Board’s operational arrangements as part of this work.

Overall, we found that the Health Board has generally effective arrangements to ensure good governance which have strengthened since our last review.

However, opportunities exist to improve these arrangements further with a particular focus needed on public access to policies, increasing a focus on primary care, hearing from patients and developing the Board Assurance Framework