Reducing Preventable Disease: Budget transfer between heads of expenditure

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A decision made on 11 April 2022

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2022-260		Public
Subject: Transfer of Reducing Preventable Disease budget from Health and Community Services to Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance
Report Title: Transfer of Reducing Preventable Disease budget from Health and Community Services to Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance		Public
Decision(s): The Minister approved a recurring budget transfer from the HCS head of expenditure to the SPPP head of expenditure to allow health promotion resources to be located in the appropriate departments for governance and management purposes.
Reason for Decision(s): As part of the Government’s Common Strategic Policy (CSP) priority to ‘Improve Islanders wellbeing and mental and physical health’, the Reducing Preventable Disease (RPD) portfolio was conceived as a suite of public health programmes to reduce the burden of preventable diseases and avoidable early death on the Island. The portfolio of work and delivery of programmes is currently shared across HCS, SPPP as well as CYPES. During 2021 work began to strengthen the Public Health Directorate in SPPP in partnership with HCS and in-line with the Jersey Care Model. At that time it was agreed to transfer £470,000 and one FTE from this portfolio from HCS to SPPP as well as £179,000 from HCS to CYPES (MD-TR-2021-0051 refers) to re-align budgets to the appropriate lead delivery departments for planned programmes. As part of continued development and strengthening, the SPPP Public Health Directorate now has an approved organisational structure under a Director of Public Health with the necessary core functions to protect and improve population health. Therefore, the departmental changes to support the final movements of budget to most effectively deliver the Governments RPD objectives can now be completed. The transfer of the RPD health promotion resource and related FTE from HCS into the Health Improvement function of the new Public Health Directorate under a new Senior Health Promotion Officer post that will ensure the best governance and professional accountability for these public health posts and related programmes of work.
Resource Implications: The HCS revenue head of expenditure to decrease by £276,430 in 2022. The SPPP revenue head of expenditure to increase by an identical amount. 3.0 FTE staff to Transfer from HCS to SPPP. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Government Plan 2022-2025 and the transfer will be reflected in the next Government Plan 2023-2026 cash limits.
Action Required: The Head of Financial Governance to advise the Health and Community Services (HCS) and Strategic Policy Planning and Performance (SPPP) Finance Business Partners that this decision is approved. In accordance with Article 18(4) the Greffier of the States is requested to arrange for the attached report to be presented to the States at least 4 weeks before the transfers are concluded. After the expiry of 4 weeks following presentation to the States the transfer may be concluded.
Signature:	Signed By: Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:	Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):