Annual Report and Accounts - The Great Western Hospital

5.3.2 The work of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee in
discharging its responsibilities
In 2011/12 the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee discharged the responsibilities delegated to it in
the following way:
• The Committee has Board approved Terms of Reference.
• The minutes of the Committee meetings are submitted to the Board.
• The Chair of the Committee gives regular verbal updates at the Board meetings.
• The internal audit plan was reviewed and approved, ensuring that there is consistency with
the audit needs of the organisation as identified in the Assurance Framework, Organisational
Risk registers and the plan supports the work of the external auditors.
• A review of the Committee effectiveness is undertaken annually.
• The trust-wide risk register is reviewed at each meeting, a directorate risk register is
considered in detail at each meeting and the Board Assurance Framework is scrutinised and
challenged at each meeting.
• Progress reports from the external auditor are received.
• All internal audit and Local Counter Fraud Service reports are reviewed.
• The Annual Governance Statement is reviewed.
• Single tender actions are reviewed.
• Any losses and compensation payments are approved.
5.3.3 Attendance at the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee Meetings
during 2011/12
Audit, Risk and Assurance
Committee Members
Record of attendance at each meeting
= Attended
= Did not attend
4
April
2011
3
June
2011
7
July
2011
15
September
2011
17
November
2011
19
January
2012
22
March
2012
Rowland Cobbold
Robert Burns
Angela Gillibrand (Chair)
The Chair of the Committee is Angela Gillibrand, a Non-Executive Director.
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