Colleagues, As we head towards the festive period, aware that many of you will be working over this time while others head off for a well-earned break. I wanted to write to you all to say thank you for all the hard work you have put in to delivering high quality, person centred services. There have been many challenges but the Partnership has continued to take shape this year with more co-location and new teams emerging. The appointment of Partnership Managers and now all Location Managers mean we will start 2017 under our new structure which has multi-disciplinary location teams at the very cen- tre of everything we do. From 16 January 2017 the new structure, detailed in this newsletter, will be in place. There will be a period of tranisition but I am very pleased to announce this important step. You will also see we have appointed Chris Allan as Clinical Lead, Eunice Chisholm as Lead Nurse and Shona Strachan as AHP Professional Lead. We hope to be able to appoint a Social Work Lead shortly. The IJB has also been busy this year and will be setting their budget early in the new year. I would encourage all of you to look at Aberdeenshire Council’s budget engagement at www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/budgetengagement and if you have a spare few minutes over the Christmas period fill in the surveys. It is important we all have our say on the important decisions which will be made next year. Once again thank you for all your work this year and i hope you have a great Christmas and New Year. Adam Coldwells Chief Officer Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership North Partnership Manager Philip English Mental Health Community Justice & and Learning Substance Misuse Disabilities Manager Manager Fiona Stephen Dawn Leslie Banff Central Buchan Lesley MacKenzie Agnes Taylor Peterhead Fraserburgh Lorna Watt Corinne Millar Central Partnership Manager Angie Wood Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Manager Janine Howie Inverurie Ellon and Jane Graham Pitmedden Kimberley Menzies Turriff and Insch, Kenmay and Oldmeldrum Westhill Ali McGruther Philippa Berry South Partnership Manager Iain Ramsay Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Manager Val Milne Aboyne and Stonehaven Banchory Mark Simpson Rhoda Hulme Portlethen, Huntly and Laurencekirk and Alford Inverbervie Deanna Cruickshank Edith Criggie Strategy and Business Services Partnership Manager Mike Ogg Programme Manager Business Services Manager Lynn Boyd Kathy Davidson Health and Wellbeing Lead Commissioning and (Public Health) Contracts Manager Kim Penman Sheena McIntosh Professional Leads Clinical Lead Lead Nurse AHP Professional Lead Chris Allan Eunice Chisholm Shona Strachan.