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Private finance initiative (PFI)
- PFI guidance
- New standard preliminary invitation to negotiate (PITN)
- New standard prequalification questionnaire
- New standard output specifications
- Standard contract
- Land and buildings in PFI schemes
- Design development protocol for PFI schemes
- Generic economic model PFI schemes
- Learning lessons from postproject evaluation
- Improving PFI procurement
- Changes to Treasury Green Book
- Investment in IM&T in the NHS
- Social Care PFI Initiative
- New hospital schemes
- Investment Guidance RouteMap
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Investment in IM&T in the NHS
This section provides general information on IM&T investment policy, and it also includes guidance to help NHS organisations that are developing IM&T schemes.
IM&T context
The context for all IM&T investment in the NHS is the national information strategy, Information for Health, launched in September 1998, and the National Programme for IT in the NHS announced in June 2002. The National Programme is using central funding, topped up by local investment to help the NHS deliver the kind of IM&T envisaged in the 1998 strategy.
Guidance on supplementary business cases for NHS Care Record Service contracts
Individual NHS organisations will need to prepare their own "supplementary" business cases to cover additional investment required for their implementation of the NHS Care Record Service. The Department of Health has therefore issued "Guidance on supplementary business cases for NHS Care Record Service contracts". This document was updated in May 2006 to reflect some minor amendments for the purpose of clarification.
Guidance on applying optimism bias to IM&T schemes and supporting mitigation calculation spreadsheet
Published: 06/07/2005
This section contains new guidance on applying optimism bias to IM&T schemes as required by the revisions to the Treasury's Green Book.
Investment in IM&T in the NHS
This part of the investment PFI and Investment section provides general information on IM&T investment policy, and it also includes several guidance documents to help NHS organisations that are developing IM&T schemes.
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Data quality
The NHS Information Quality Assurance Consultation began on 25 March 2004. The paper outlines a national strategy for improving the quality of information in the NHS. It is a focused consultation with key NHS health informatics and data quality leads.
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