PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS SERVICE MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING

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1 S E P T E M B E R PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS SERVICE MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING On 22 September 2016 Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) held a fund-raising Coffee Morning in The Cottage Ballymena for We Are Macmillan Cancer Support. Macmillan nurses provide specialist care to those living with cancer. They provide the best cancer care possible in terms of medical help, practical help and emotional help to not only the cancer patients but to the patients family and loved ones. PaLS staff prepared and brought a vast range of scones, cakes, traybakes, sausage rolls, cocktail sausages, sweets and of course the traditional sponge cake! Staff from Northern HSC Trust, who also reside in The Cottage, attended and contributed which was much appreciated by the organisers from PaLS. At time of going to publication, a total of 260 has been raised for this very worthy cause. Inside this issue... Page 1 PaLS Macmillan Coffee Morning Page 2-3 DISABILITY AWARENESS DAYS Pages 3 National Fraud Initiative Page 4 Retirement of Dr Glynis Henry Pages 5 Retirement of Paula Sheils Page 6 CICM Launch Day with Accounts Receivable Shared Service Centre Page 7 HSC Pension Scheme Awareness Sessions Page 8 Choice 2 Pension Information Page 9-10 BSO Dinner Dance

2 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 2 DISABILITY AWARENESS DAYS Are you interested in disability issues? Do you want to play a part in raising awareness on disability matters amongst staff? We are looking for volunteers from across the 11 regional Health and Social Care organisations to become involved in a small working group. Together with members of Tapestry, our new disability staff forum, the group will organise Awareness Days aimed at staff working in the 11 organisations. For example, in the past we featured World Sight Day, where staff from the Royal National Institute for the Blind and Guide Dogs for the Blind came into some of our offices. They spoke about support available for people with sight loss and staff had a chance to try out their sym specs to better understand what it is like to live with certain eye conditions. On another Awareness Day, Action on Hearing Loss gave a talk and provided the opportunity for staff to do a hearing test. What does it involve? There is a range of tasks involved in organising the awareness days. You can become involved in any aspects of it, for example in: organising a coffee morning linking up with voluntary sector groups doing internet searches putting together a display stand. What can you gain from being involved? By being involved, you can: learn more about disability issues and the lives of people who live with a particular disability help change attitudes towards people with a disability and their carers - and help remove barriers that they experience use skills that you currently may not be able to put to use in your job - and develop new skills be part of a new team - get to know and work with colleagues from other teams and organisations.

3 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 3 DISABILITY AWARENESS DAYS (continued) What to do if you want to become involved: The work is undertaken during working hours. As all 11 organisations have committed to featuring the awareness days, under their Disability Action Plans, time spent on the work counts as work time. If you are interested in getting involved you should first speak to your line manager. Contact us if you would like to find out more: Speak to us: Equality Unit us: Equality.Unit@hscni.net Or come round to us: 5th floor, Franklin Street, Belfast BT2 8DQ We look forward to hearing from you. National Fraud Initiative 2016/17 (NFI) BSO is required to protect the public funds it administers and may share information provided to us with other publicly funded bodies in order to prevent and detect fraud. The use of data in the NFI data matching exercise is carried out with statutory authority and does not require the consent of the individuals concerned under the Data Protection Act 1998 however, there is a Code of Practice which is adhered to. As a participant in the 2016/17 NFI, BSO will be providing details in respect of pensions, payroll and trader payments so that they can be compared to information provided by other public bodies. NFI is an important counter-fraud tool and runs every two years. The most recent NFI exercise has reported significant monetary outcomes and has also led to a number of convictions. The most significant monetary outcomes are reported below. From 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2016 Pensions fraud and overpayments - almost 1.5m Housing benefit fraud and overpayments - over 1.2m Rates evasion - over 330,000 Further information on NFI is available on the BSO website using the following link: or by contacting BSO s NFI Key Contact Janine Watterson, Financial Governance and Audit Officer,

4 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 4 Retirement of Dr Glynis Henry Dr Glynis Henry CBE, Head of HSC Clinical Education Centre, retired on 19th September 2016 after a career spanning 36 years in the health service. Glynis began her career as a nurse in 1980 and went on to hold senior positions in clinical practice, management, commissioning, policy, professional development and education. Glynis outstanding contribution to nursing and healthcare was recognised in 2014 when she was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). This contribution was further recognised by her colleagues and peers at her leaving event in Clady Villa on Friday 16th September The event attracted a large turnout of friends and colleagues who wished to show their appreciation to Glynis and to her wider family members in attendance: her husband James, her mother, Violet, her father, Gerry and her sons David, Christopher and Peter. A wide range of plaudits were given to Glynis from the audience including keynote plaudits from Liam McIvor (CEO of BSO), Professor Charlotte McArdle (Chief Nursing Officer), Professor Owen Barr (Head of School, Ulster University) and Alan Corry-Finn (Executive Director of Nursing, WHSCT). We thank Glynis for her massive contribution to CEC, BSO and to the wider HSC and we wish her and her family a long, happy and healthy retirement. Glynis and Maurice Devine

5 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 5 Retirement of Paula Sheils, Assistant Director FPS Paula retired from FPS at the end of August this year. Paula began her career in Health and Social Care in 1979 as a Management Trainee following her graduation from QUB with an honours degree in Philosophy. Paula held several posts in hospital and community services before taking up appointment as Director of Medical and Ophthalmic Services in the Central Services Agency in She was appointed to the new post of Director of Family Practitioner Services (FPS) in 1999 and, following the Review of Public Administration, retained responsibility for this area of service in the new post of Assistant Director FPS when FPS was subsumed into the Operations Directorate in the Business Services Organisation. Paula dropped in to BSO on the 20th September to say goodbye to some of the staff she had worked with in recent years see photographs. She will be missed by those who worked with her in the FPS and she received messages of best wishes from a wide range of others including staff across BSO, HSC Board staff, representatives from British Medical Association, British Dental Association, Optometry NI, Community Pharmacy NI and many others. Paula requested that, in lieu of a retirement gift, that a donation was made to Action Cancer and Friends of the Cancer Centre on her behalf. We all wish Paula a long and healthy retirement.

6 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 6 CICM Launch Day with Accounts Receivable Shared Service Centre The Accounts Receivable Shared Service Centre has embarked this month on an exciting journey as new Corporate Members of the Charted Institute of Credit Management (CICM). The Institute was formed over 75 years ago, and was granted its Royal Charter in The granting of new charters is rare and reserved for eminent professional bodies with a solid record of achievement. CICM offer a comprehensive range of training and Ofqual regulated qualifications which are the recognised standard in the credit profession. The CICM Quality Accreditation is formal recognition of an organisations commitment to quality, continuous improvement and demonstrated best practice within this profession. On Thursday 22nd September 2016, the AR Shared Service Centre, held a launch day with guest Dr. Debbie Tucklewood, the CICM Director of Learning and Development. Lynette Fegan, Head of Income, detailed her strategic plan towards achieving the CICM Quality Accreditation and shared her vision for the future of achieving CICM Centre of Excellence status, To be awarded the CICM Centre of Excellence status would be the ultimate accolade for our department and we would be in fact the first business in Northern Ireland to achieve it. The launch was a very informative and motivating day for all the staff, outlining a clear and positive vision for the future.

7 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 7 HSC Pension Scheme Awareness Sessions If you would like to know more about your HSC Pension Scheme, you can attend a HSC Pension Scheme awareness session specific to your HSC Pension Scheme. Which HSC Pension Scheme am I in? Please use the link to determine which HSC Pension Scheme you are in; intranet.bso.hscni.net/2784.htm How do I book onto a session? Once you have determined which HSC Pension Scheme you are in, you can book onto one of the sessions by clicking on your preferred location, and then select the appropriate date and time. A session will last approximately 2 hours. Click here to view sessions available. Don t worry if you can t attend one of the sessions, information on your HSC Pension Scheme is available on the HSC Pensions website which can be accessed via the following link; If you have any queries in relation to this, please contact the HR team via BSO.humanresources@hscni.net If you are a member of the HSC Pension Scheme please access the below link to review the most recent member newsletter;

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9 BSO Business Matters August 2016 Page 9 BSO Charity Dinner Dance 7th October 2016 Tickets are currently being sold from the following Social Committee members for October s Fundraising event in aid of Aware NI:- Aine Arthurs, ITS Geraldine Doherty/Julie Redmond, HR Sandra Lowe, CFPS Sandy Fitzpatrick, FPS Jennifer Davison, PALS Helen Hanna/Martin Mullan, DLS For further information please Helen.Hanna@hscni.net Forthcoming Board Meeting The next meeting of the BSO Board will take place on 27 October 2016 at 2PM in the Boardroom, Franklin Street. If you would like any further information or details of the agenda, please contact Amanda Mills in the Chief Executive s Office. Tel: (028) Amanda.Mills@hscni.net

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