the May 2005 update to the December 2004 OBC. | |
the capacity of an organisation to afford the health campus. It is usually expressed as the maximum price that the organisation could pay. | |
a document that supports a proposal for capital investment. It must convincingly demonstrate that a project is economically sound, financially viable and will be well managed. | |
St Mary's NHS Trust, the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and, from 1 July 2002, Partnerships UK. | |
provides detailed guidance to the NHS for each stage of a capital scheme including practical guidance on the technical considerations of the full capital appraisal process and a framework for establishing management arrangements to enable benefits to be identified, evaluated and realised. | |
responsible for developing clinical models based on affordable models of care for the Campus. | |
NHS organisations, usually Primary Care Trusts, which receive direct funding from the Department of Health to purchase healthcare for patients. May also include national commissioners of specialist services. | |
works that would facilitate the move of the three hospitals to the campus and allow St Mary's hospital to remain operational during building works. | |
the third phase (following the Strategic Outline Case and Outline Business Case) of the business case, which assesses and plans the preferred option in detail. | |
a review by the Office of Government Commerce to establish a scheme's fitness to proceed in the procurement cycle. | |
commissioned by the North West London Strategic Health Authority to produce a report on the 'Lessons Learned from the Paddington Health Campus Project' (published 10 October 2005). | |
established in May 2002 to oversee the Paddington Health Campus scheme. The Board was co-chaired on a rotating basis by Non-Executive Directors of St Mary's and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trusts. | |
collaboration between the Department of Health, HM Treasury and the National Audit Office in 2004 to consider why the scheme's estimated capital costs had risen so much since the 2000 OBC and how this situation had come about. | |
responsible for overseeing London's health services, covering a population of 7 million and overseeing 16 Health Authorities (as at 1999). Abolished in 2002. | |
a document which set out the agreement that had been reached between the Campus Partners in relation to how the procurement of the Paddington Health Campus was to be governed. | |
Median Index of Public Sector construction costs. | |
a division of Imperial College, Faculty of Medicine. The Institute is based at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. | |
a providing body for health care, created under 1990 legislation in a move to distinguish between the providing function and the commissioning function (undertaken by Health Authorities). | |
from April 2002, one of England's 28 Strategic Health Authorities, responsible for the performance management of St Mary's NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. | |
a form of borrowing in which the obligation is not recorded on the borrower's financial statements and does not attract capital charges. | |
the journal through which a PFI scheme must tender for contractors. Formerly 'Official Journal of the European Communities' (OJEC). | |
a form of borrowing in which the obligation is recorded on the borrower's financial statements and does attract capital charges. | |
an explicit adjustment, based on data from previous projects, to redress the tendency to be overly optimistic when assessing the cost, work duration and benefits of projects. | |
the second phase (following Strategic Outline) of the business case cycle, which identifies the preferred option. | |
establishes the principle of development. The details of the development may be reserved and will require a further planning application. | |
a clawback mechanism to allow the seller of land to receive a defined proportion of sales proceeds if that land is re-sold by the initial purchaser. | |
the offshoot of the Grand Union Canal, which lies to the north of the current St Mary's Hospital. | |
oversaw the development of the Campus scheme on behalf of the West London Partnership Forum until it was disbanded during the April 2002 reorganisation of the NHS. | |
owners of land adjacent to the St Mary's hospital site north of the Paddington Basin. | |
the project by which the Campus Partners sought to build a health complex on the Paddington Basin site. | |
Patient choice (at the point of referral) | the policy, effective from January 2006, whereby patients are able to choose a convenient place, date and time for their initial hospital appointment from at least four providers. |
the NHS financial framework for rewarding activity in hospitals with a tariff-based payment. | |
established in August 2004 to enable the Campus partners to negotiate effectively in a time-critical manner with Paddington Development Corporation Limited. | |
established in March 2004 to take day-to-day decisions relating to the scheme in conjunction with the Project Director. Reported to the Joint Project Board. | |
a policy introduced by the Government in 1992 to harness private sector management and expertise in the delivery of public services, while reducing the impact of public borrowing. | |
a method used to calculate the "in-house" cost of delivering a project, which helps determine whether the Private Finance Initiative route is a viable alternative and demonstrates good value for money. | |
the probability of an event occurring, coupled with the anticipated impact on individuals and/or organisations. | |
the process that helps organisations understand the range of risks they face - both internally and externally, the level of ability to control these risks, their likelihood of recurrence and their potential impacts. It involves a mixture of quantifying risks and using judgement, assessing and balancing of risks and their benefit and weighing them, for example, against cost. | |
a database where results of all an organisation's risk assessments are recorded. | |
the first phase (preceding Outline Business and Full Business) of the business case cycle, which makes the case for change. | |
a review of London's healthcare provision, chaired by Sir Leslie Turnberg, which set the context for the wider London healthcare strategy. | |
formed in March 1999 to unite the local healthcare organisations in west London (now north west London) and Imperial College to take forward the recommendations of the Turnberg Report 1998. Dissolved in March 2002. | |
local authority, which owned the North Westminster Community School Site and was the provider of planning permission for the Campus scheme. |