OIC and NHS Orkney urgently need to agree and deliver priorities

The tensions between Orkney Islands Council and NHS Orkney are today, Thursday, highlighted in a high level audit report.

Community planning is about ensuring that organisations work together, and with communities, to improve the quality of people’s lives through more effective delivery of services.

However, it has now been stated that community planning urgently needs to improve in Orkney.

Those behind the report also said that Orkney Community Planning Partnership (CPP) lacks effective leadership – all partners need urgently to agree priorities and align resources to deliver them.

A report, published today, for the Accounts Commission and the Auditor General for Scotland, says there are good examples of island bodies working well together, but the CPP is not exploiting these to deliver better outcomes for the people of Orkney.

Full details in The Orcadian, out today.