Up to HSSD to put a priority on its spending
Tuesday 11th December 2012, 5:00PM GMT.
HEALTH and Social Services will not receive more funding to improve its financial management, the Treasury and Resources minister has said following the department’s £2.5m overspend.
Gavin St Pier, pictured, said his message to all States departments ahead of this week’s Budget debate, in which HSSD will ask for a £2.1m. increase to its 2013 budget, was that the onus was on it to control and prioritise its funding.
‘I think that the challenges within HSSD which have come out in the last few weeks will be a cause for concern throughout 2013 as well,’ he said.
‘Clearly we need to ensure that we have good financial management and financial control, not only to manage the cash limit, but also in delivering FTP targets.’
He said he endorsed a review initiated by States chief executive Mike Brown to examine the adequacy of the department’s financial management.
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So targets are more important than people?They also cause stress ,ill health and unemployment!
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Yargets are about choices made to maximise the benefits available for limited resources. Targets are involved in choosing the most appropriate ways of achieving chosen policy objectives.
In fact government targets are human choices of the most appropriate means to best achieve what is judged to be the most appropriate way to produce a better quality of life for human individuals.
Targets are not more important than people, they are, ideally, the structured expression of human desires.
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You have to love GSP’s logic.
He has no confidence in the HSSD board because they are not stating that improving financial information systems is a key priority.
On the other hand, he says they must find the money to do so from within the existing budget.
The conclusion is that GSP believes services should be cut further to ensure that financial information systems are improved.
Easy to say when he’s not heading the board that has to make that call and carry the can for it…
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A review by the CE? The same CE who oversees HSSD in the first place?
Through the Executive Leadership Team says the Billet… I’ve googled, but can’t find who’s on this team – does anyone know?
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