The outcome of the assessment will be encapsulated in a brief report to cover the following areas:
Joint Statement of Support (one of following options):
• Supported : this may include recommendations as follows:
o Essential Recommendations: those areas requiring amendment or alteration in order to meet either national guidance or established benchmarks but which, in the opinion of the panel, can be amended without significant re-working. The Board will be required to submit agreed evidence to the panel before the 'supported' statement will be verified to the CIG.
o Advisory Recommendations: areas of potential for further improvement for the boards consideration, including notes on aspects which (though not falling short of standards set in the design statement) are potential risks in relation to the development planning process.
o Notes of potential to deliver good practice: where the panel sees that the project is demonstrating the potential to deliver best practice in a particular area of design this will be noted.
• Unsupported : this will include a statement of the areas of concern that leads the panel to consider that the project is likely to fall seriously short of either the benchmarks set by the Board, the standards established for healthcare buildings, or the expectations established in national policy (i.e. if the benchmarks established by the board do not address significant areas of policy or are low). Such areas of concern are considered, by the panel, to require significant reworking or reconsideration and are therefore unable to be resolved using the 'essential recommendations' above.
Next Stage Process : the notification required for the next assessment stage and the methodology of assessment that will be applied which will vary depending on the scale and complexity of the project.
Where a project is 'unsupported' it is anticipated that a further dialogue will be established to promote improvement in the areas identified. An amended submission, addressing these areas, would allow the report to be updated and the support status amended prior to progressing the project further through the business case process and prior to any verification to CIG.