Integration Joint Board
The Integration Joint Board (IJB) is a joint board of Aberdeenshire Council and NHS Grampian. It oversees the Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership (AHSCP). The IJB manage adult Social Care and Health services in Aberdeenshire.
Legal responsibilities
The IJB has a legal obligation to comply with certain acts and orders. View the duties of the IJB (PDF 349KB).
Find out about the AHSCP and IJB public facing complaints handling procedure (CHP).
Publication scheme
The IJB is legally required to produce and maintain a publication scheme that sets out the information it publishes and how it can be accessed.
Legal responsibility to involve people
The IJB membership must include people who can represent the views of those using the services and unpaid carers. These representatives are stakeholder members. This means they are able to comment on and influence decision-making, but are a non-voting member.
Membership
The IJB consists of 5 Aberdeenshire Councillors and 5 NHS Grampian Board members. There are also non-voting members which include council and NHS officers as well as representatives from users of adult health and social care services, carers groups, trade unions and the third sector.
IJB members must declare any outside interests. For example any other organisations they represent, if they have shares in companies, and if they have received any gifts relating to their work on the IJB.
The Aberdeenshire Councillors’ contact details and register of interests are available to view:
- Councillor Anne Stirling (Vice Chair)
- Councillor David Keating
- Councillor Moray Grant
- Councillor Gordon Lang
- Councillor Neil Baillie
The NHS Grampian board members can be contacted at gram.grampianchair@nhs.scot and their register of interests are available to view:
- John Tomlinson (PDF 112KB) (Chair)
- Joyce Duncan (PDF 69KB)
- Steven Lindsay (PDF 77KB)
- Susan Webb (PDF 71KB)
- Colette Backwell (PDF 72KB)
The non-voting members' register of interests are available to view:
- Pamela Milliken (AHSCP Chief Officer) (PDF 226KB)
- Chris Smith (Chief Finance and Business Officer) (PDF 90KB)
- David Hekelaar (PDF 73KB)
- Susan Kinsey (PDF 93KB)
- Inez Kirk (PDF 78KB)
- Martin McKay (PDF 71KB)
- Paul Bachoo (PDF 70KB)
- Leigh Jolly (Chief Social Work Officer) (PDF 226KB)
- Angie Mutch (Public Representative) (PDF 71KB)
- Acute Care Representative
- Fiona Culbert (Carers Representative) (PDF 105KB)
- June Barnard (PDF 69KB)
Meetings and minutes
The IJB notice of meetings and minutes are available to view on our IJB Committee page.
Sub committees
The IJB Audit Committee and the Clinical and Adult Social Work Governance Committee are two sub committees of the IJB. The role of these committees is to focus on key areas to provide confidence on the quality of the AHSCP services.
IJB Audit Committee
This committee provides updates to the IJB on audits, risk management, financial controls and performance.
Meeting information and minutes are available on our IJB Audit Committee page.
Clinical and Adult Social Work Governance (CASWG) Committee
This committee provides updates to the IJB on the provision of safe, effective, person-centred adult health and social care.