YO037 Annual Audit Letter - Final

audit 2003/2004 Annual Audit Letter East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust INSIDE THIS LETTER PAGES 2 - 15 • The purpose of this Letter • Background to our audit • Key messages • Audit objectives • Financial aspects of corporate governance • Performance management • Accounts • Future audit work • Closing remarks PAGES 16 - 17 Appendices • Appendix 1 - Reports issued during the year • Ax 2 - Audit fee Reference: YO037 Annual Audit Letter Date: November 2004 audit 2003/2004 ANNUAL AUDIT LETTER In addition to the work carried out by the Audit Commission, the Commission for Health The purpose of this Letter Improvement (now the Healthcare Commission) carried out a full inspection of the PCT during This Annual Audit Letter to the Board 2003/04. Its overall conclusions were: summarises the significant issues and ‘The PCT is making good progress establishing conclusions from our 2003/04 audit, together its clinical governance strategies and with our comments on other current issues. implementation plans. It has invested time in More detail can be found in the separate reports making the principles of clinical governance we have issued this year which are listed in known to staff and has adopted an innovative Appendix 1 for information. These reports are approach to engaging them, although not all discussed and agreed with officers and general practices are signed up to this. While the presented ...