Health chiefs are being asked to approve nearly £500million in funding to help integrate health and social care across Grampian.
The Grampian NHS board will meet today to approve delegated budgets for three health and social care partnerships in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray, as part of plans to integrate adult health and social care services.
The merging of the services comes into full force on April 1.
Under the proposals, adult health and social care services in every local authority area will merge with those of the NHS to form the individual partnerships.
Initial proposed budgets for the upcoming financial year are for the city to receive £163,542million, Aberdeenshire to get £162,174million and Moray £66,862million.
Of those figures, £9,073million would be for community mental health in the city, with £6,547million for Aberdeenshire and £6,409million for Moray.
Meanwhile, £33,702million would be available for primary care in Aberdeenshire, with £33,476million in the city and £13,270million for Moray.
In total, this adds up to over £476million for the three local authorities.
For hosted services such as sexual health services, Aberdeen would receive £822,000, compared to £800,000 in Aberdeenshire and £353,000 in Moray.
According to the figures, Aberdeen City would have more than twice Moray’s spend for heart failure service with £108,000 for the city and £43,000 for Moray.
The report going before the NHS board said the ambition of the plan was to “improve the quality and consistency of services for patients, carers, service users and their families”.
Vice-chairman of Aberdeenshire Council’s social work and housing committee, Raymond Christie, said the integration across the regions was a sign of “big changes in social work” across Scotland.
The Labour councillor added: “It is a good step forward. In the past, you had, say, an occupational therapist from the NHS doing something and an occupational therapist from the council doing something else, but that will be completely brought together.
“All the councils have got to have an integrated, joint board. This is Scottish Government laws coming into force.”