The health service’s financial management, consumption, staffing and operation-related information must be examined by an independent audit. Naalakkersuisoq expects that the study will show a need for more expenditure.
How does the healthcare system manage grants of around two billion kroner? What is the situation in terms of personnel and IT equipment? An independent audit investigation must, among other things, provide answers to this. Naalakkersuisoq for finance, Aqqaluaq B. Egede (IA), writes to Sermitsiaq.
The management audit must highlight four main themes. These are budget and grant management, expenditure and resource utilization, personnel, capacity and staffing model as well as IT, data and management information, writes Naalakkersuisoq.
The plan is for the audit to begin at the end of June. A mid-term report is expected to be ready in September. The overall audit work will be completed at the end of October.
– This task is carried out for the Department of Finance by Internal Audit in collaboration with the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities, writes Aqqaluaq B. Egede.
The consultancy firm Implement must carry out the task.
Naalakkersuisoq could during a question hour in Inatsisartut on 20 May tell the members that an investigation has been initiated. On the basis of that answer, Sermitsiaq contacted naalakkersuisoq the same day to deepen the work. Naalakkersuisoq’s reply was posted on June 19.
Naalakkersuisoq: More expenses may be necessary
When the audit is completed and concrete results are available, a political position must be taken on it, writes naalakkersuisoq.
If the investigation concludes that the health service needs more funds than the already budgeted amount of around two billion kroner from the national treasury, it must be negotiated, explains Aqqaluaq B. Egede.
– If the upcoming report from the administrative audit shows that there is also a need for new grants or changed priorities, it will be handled according to the normal grant procedures. That is, through the financial law process or when submitted to Inatsisartut, if there is a need for it, writes naalakkersuisoq.
In his reply to Inatsisartut on 20 May, Naalakkersuisoq has expressed that he expects the conclusions of the ongoing audit investigation to show that there is a need for more funds for the health service.
