A Policy on Design Quality for NHSScotland requires that:
"The SGHD must provide guidance on compliance with those aspects of statutory and mandatory requirements which are particular to the procurement, design and delivery of healthcare buildings and guidance on best practice. This will be effected through the support to be provided by Health Facilities Scotland and Architecture and Design Scotland under the tripartite working partnership with SGHD."
Accordingly projects submitted to the Capital Investment Group (CIG) for business case approval will be assessed for compliance with current published guidance. To facilitate this, Boards will be requested to submit a comprehensive list of the guidance that they consider to be applicable to the development under consideration (see inset on next page), together with a schedule of derogations that are required for reasons specific to the project's particular circumstances.
| Projects submitted for the business case process will be assessed for compliance with the following: a) Healthcare guidance: | |
| Scottish Health Planning Notes (SHPN) | Health Facilities Scotland |
| Scottish Health Technical Memoranda (SHTM) | Health Facilities Scotland |
| Scottish Health Facilities Notes | Health Facilities Scotland |
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| Health Building Notes (HBN) | Dept of Health Estates and Facilities Division |
| Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) | Dept of Health Estates and Facilities Division |
| Health Facilities Notes (HFN) | Dept of Health Estates and Facilities Division |
| Where there is a current SHPN or SHTM relating to a subject then it takes precedence over the equivalent HBN or HTM. Where there is no Scottish version of a document the English document can be used. For further information on the available documents refer to the Scottish Health Planning Guidance: Reference Guide. Currently Scottish guidance can be obtained in the publications section of the HFS web site and English guidance can be obtained on the Knowledge and Information Portal (KIP). A new web site, Space for Health, is under development and will replace both of these sites. Best practice dementia and equality design guidance b) Statutory requirements Planning permission Building Regulations compliance Disability Discrimination Act compliance Construction (Design and Management) Regulations compliance c) Other mandatory requirements BREEAM Healthcare (BRE Environmental & Sustainability Standard) www.breeam.org | |
The NHSScotland Design Assessment Process will then make an assessment of the design information available each business case stage for compliance with the guidance. Details of the submission requirements for each stage are included in Appendix A and, the pro-forma* for submission are included in Appendix B. (*although this is a protected document the proforma has editable regions)