conditioning was to help provide a more comfortable environment, especially for families, and represented provision above and beyond the NHS for that Unit. Board’s legal requirement After discussion, the Committee Agreed that this expenditure was appropriate 4 INVESTMENT FUNDS 4.1 Funds Report - Portfolio Valuation Mr Addison advised that the final position as at end March 2016 had yet to be reported. The position statement would be required as part of the Annual Accounts process and would be circulated to members once available from Adam & Co. The Committee so Noted. 5 APPLICATIONS 5.1 Non-Core Learning There had been circulated an application seeking funding in the sum of £50,000 for Learning and Development activity in 2016/2017. There had also been circulated detail of funding allocations made in 2015/2016, along with statements from funding recipients as to how some of this resource was utilised. It was confirmed that applications for resource were considered in line with the current Study Leave Policy. During discussion, there was reference to the question of equity of access to funding resource and members sought further information in that regard. The Committee: Agreed to allocate £50,000 for Non-Core Learning in 2016/2017 subject to later discussion in relation to overall Endowment Fund Budget resource allocation for 2016/17. Agreed that further detail be requested in relation to publicity of the funding resource available and the number of successful applications per number of staff in each Operational Unit area. 5.2 Physician Associates There had been circulated an application seeking funding in the sum of £227,048 over a two year period, to enable a project to be established to test a new type of healthcare worker in NHS Highland, with a view to building future workforce capacity, capability and resilience. Mrs Mitchell outlined to members the background on Physician Associate (PA) roles, and advised that 12-14 were trained per year by Aberdeen University, with a small number of training positions currently provided in Highland. A number of PAs were currently working in Grampian, Tayside and Lanarkshire. The Highland project would seek to employ students from the start of their training programme. Dr Harvey stated PAs represented a new medical workforce, based on a model that had proved successful elsewhere, and this proposed project was innovative insofar as it would guarantee employment at the end of the training period.
conditioning was to help provide a more comfortable environment, especially for families, and represented provision above and beyond the NHS Board’s legal requirement for that Unit. After discussion, the Committee Agreed that this expenditure was appropriate 4 INVESTMENT FUNDS 4.1 Funds Report - Portfolio Valuation Mr Addison advised that the final position as at end March 2016 had yet to be reported. The position statement would be required as part of the Annual Accounts process and would be circulated to members once available from Adam & Co. The Committee so Noted. 5 APPLICATIONS 5.1 Non-Core Learning There had been circulated an application seeking funding in the sum of £50,000 for Learning and Development activity in 2016/2017. There had also been circulated detail of funding allocations made in 2015/2016, along with statements from funding recipients as to how some of this resource was utilised. It was confirmed that applications for resource were considered in line with the current Study Leave Policy. During discussion, there was reference to the question of equity of access to funding resource and members sought further information in that regard. The Committee: Agreed to allocate £50,000 for Non-Core Learning in 2016/2017 subject to later discussion in relation to overall Endowment Fund Budget resource allocation for 2016/17. Agreed that further detail be requested in relation to publicity of the funding resource available and the number of successful applications per number of staff in each Operational Unit area. 5.2 Physician Associates There had been circulated an application seeking funding in the sum of £227,048 over a two year period, to enable a project to be established to test a new type of healthcare worker in NHS Highland, with a view to building future workforce capacity, capability and resilience. Mrs Mitchell outlined to members the background on Physician Associate (PA) roles, and advised that 12-14 were trained per year by Aberdeen University, with a small number of training positions currently provided in Highland. A number of PAs were currently working in Grampian, Tayside and Lanarkshire. The Highland project would seek to employ students from the start of their training programme. Dr Harvey stated PAs represented a new medical workforce, based on a model that had proved successful elsewhere, and this proposed project was innovative insofar as it would guarantee employment at the end of the training period.
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