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The investment life-cycle: strategy and planning
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Last modified date:4 April 2008
The Department of Health no longer approves strategic outline cases (SOCs). Users seeking guidance on the content of SOCs should consult their SHAs.
Each piece of guidance listed below has a short introductory synopsis that includes, where relevant, information about updates.
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Modernisation and policy
Finance and planning
- The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2006/7
- National Standards, Local Action: Health and Social Care Standards and Planning Framework 2005/06-2007/08
- Payment by results
- NHS Financial Manual
- OGC Successful Delivery Toolkit: Project execution plan (opens new window)
- OGC Successful Delivery Toolkit: Risk management framework (opens new window)
Health services
- Primary care
- Commissioning
- Supporting people with long term conditions: An NHS and social care model to support local innovation and integration
- Improving Chronic Disease Management
- Urgent care
- Primary and social care premises: planning & design guidance
- Secondary care
- Configuring hospitals
- Day surgery
- Treatment centres
- Radiography modernisation
- Pathology
- Emergency care
- Quality Critical Care: Beyond 'Comprehensive Critical Care': A report by the Critical Care Stakeholder Forum
- Core areas in the Reforming Emergency Care programme
- Mental health services
- Safety, privacy and dignity in mental health units: guidance on mixed sex accommodation for mental health services
- 'Not just bricks and mortar': Report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Working Group on the size, staffing, structure, siting and security of new acute adult psychiatric in-patient units
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Performance
Healthcare environment and estates
Sustainable development
- Sustainable development in the NHS
- Sustainable development in NHS purchasing and supply (opens new window)
- Sustainable development: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (opens new window)
- Green Public Private Partnerships (OGC guide in Portable Document Format) (opens new window)
Strategic business case (SBC)
OGC Gateway Reviews
Review 1: Business justification
Review 0: Strategic Assessment
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