General Principles

The NHSScotland Design Assessment Process, for all projects over the delegated value, sits in an advisory role to decision makers in both the commissioning Board and in the Capital Investment Group within the Scottish Government Health Directorates.  The service is provided to Health Boards at no cost to the board.

Fig. 1 : Flow diagram showing position of NHSScotland Design Assessment Process consideration in the Business Case Approvals Process ; this diagram applies to IA, OBC and FBC stages.