Project to be a Good Practice Case Study

The way the Health Investment Plan has engaged stakeholders to contribute to the development of local health services has been selected as an example of good practice to be included in new guidance being published by NHS Estates.

The decision to include the Peterborough project as a case study followed a formal review of the Trust's design for the new hospital. Undertaken by NHS Estates, the Commission for Architecture and the Build Environment and the Princes Foundation. in November 2002, the review panel commended the Trust for the exemplary consultation and clinical planning it had undertaken to developed the service plans and hospital design.

The new NHS guidance will cover the process of service planning, the involvement of stakeholders and the level of information required to ensure trusts and architects fully understand how services are to be provided in the future.

Trust Chief Executive and Project Director Chris Banks said, 'It is a satisfying to see the efforts the Project Team, Trust staff and our stakeholders have put into the project has been recognised in such a constructive way'.