Capital Assessment Guidelines

The National Health Board Capital Investment Committee (CIC) has been established to develop a new centrally-led process for the national prioritisation and allocation of health capital funding.

These guidelines set out the criteria, process and timelines that the CIC will use in forming its advice to Ministers on the assessment, prioritisation and sequencing of capital investment proposals from DHBs and the Ministry of Health.

The process is one in which service planning leads capital decision making and in which national strategic direction is central to allocation decisions.

The guidelines include a high level description of the expectations required at each stage in the business case development process. The NHB will work with DHBs in the coming year to develop further resources to assist with the development of business cases, in the meantime DHBs need to refer to the Treasury better business case guidelines for more detail on the development of the business case.  http://www.infrastructure.govt.nz/

Read the Capital Assessment Guidelines (PDF, 72KB)