{"id":201,"date":"2012-01-24T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=201"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:05:11","slug":"paper-trail-accounting-officer-department-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/01\/24\/paper-trail-accounting-officer-department-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Trail: Accounting Officer, Department of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/health\/2012\/01\/accounting-officer-statement\/\">on the Department of Health website, this statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Permanent Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer at the Department of Health (DH) is accountable to Parliament for the proper use of the resources allocated to the Department.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The [Permanent Secretary and Principal]\u00a0Accounting Officer has responsibilities for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ensuring that all the expenditure of DH, its arm\u2019s-length bodies and the NHS (including NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts) is contained within the overall budget<\/li>\n<li>assuring that individual organisations within the system are performing their functions and duties effectively and have the necessary governance and controls to ensure regularity, propriety and value for money; and<\/li>\n<li>ensuring that Ministers are appropriately advised on all matters of financial\u00a0propriety and regularity, and value for money, across the systems for which the Department is responsible for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This\u00a0<a title=\"Accounting Officer system statement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Publicationsandstatistics\/Publications\/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance\/DH_132344\">Accounting Officer system statement<\/a>\u00a0provides further information on the role of the accounting officer in relation to the NHS, public health and adult social care and arrangements after April 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Can you use this as a starting point for exploring accountability or how to &#8216;follow the money&#8217; in the NHS? Perhaps the holder of this position has to submit reports &#8211; and if so, where can they be found?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Paper+Trail%3A+Accounting+Officer%2C+Department+of+Health+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D201\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Paper+Trail%3A+Accounting+Officer%2C+Department+of+Health+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D201\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across on the Department of Health website, this statement: The Permanent Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer at the Department of Health (DH) is accountable to Parliament for the proper use of the resources allocated to the Department. Tweet This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/01\/24\/paper-trail-accounting-officer-department-of-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,14],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}