Consistent with Partnerships Victoria guidance, the business case also assessed the options against a number of non-financial or socio-economic factors including:
• socio-economic impacts on patients, paediatric care and the health industry
• achievement of strategic objectives
• achievement of project objectives.
The socio-economic evaluation indicated that the new west and new west variant options performed equally well across the socio-economic criteria. This was due to the similar nature of the two projects in terms of the final outcomes achieved. These two options were the highest performing options-scoring as much as 30 per cent higher than the east integrated option.