Risk Appetite for Health and Social Care Partnership: A maturity matrix to support better use of risk in partnership decisions

This Board Assurance Prompt has been produced by Dr John Bullivant, Chairman of GGI and Jonathan Passmore, Vice-Chair of Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership IJB and identifies:

• A high-level outline of risk appetite and risk tolerance
• A timeline for developing risk appetite in relation to strategic objectives and outcomes
• Example questions that Partnership boards should be asking of themselves, their partners, parent, and hosting organisations
• A maturity matrix, by which boards can develop their own generic risk appetite and which can also be applied to specific risks

The Author

Dr John Bullivant FRCP Edin

Chair, GGI Advisory Group