Management Section 3 : Context and the Scottish Capital Investment Manual

Introduction

3.1 All NHSScotland bodies are covered by the terms of the Scottish Capital Investment Manual (SCIM) which sets out the requirements for capital investment decisions. This was fully revised in April 2009 and issued as CEL 19 (2009). The current version of the SCIM is available at: http://www.scim.scot.nhs.uk/

3.2 Property transactions do not sit in isolation but are part of a process concerned with implementing service improvement or change. Such transactions therefore sit within the context of a programme or project requiring investment/disposal and are therefore within the context of the SCIM.

3.3 This Handbook therefore provides the supporting guidance to be followed by NHSScotland bodies in ensuring that, following the approval of Standard or Full Business Cases, the property transactions that support the implementation of a preferred solution can be undertaken and implemented efficiently and effectively.

3.4 Holding Bodies will be aware of the requirements contained within the Scottish Capital Investment Manual to apply option appraisal techniques in arriving at a preferred option where alternative courses of action exist to resolve a defined problem. Property transactions should therefore, support the implementation of preferred option and result from the application of such appraisal techniques.

Post-transaction Monitoring Procedures

3.5 In their monitoring of property transactions (see Management: Section 6), the inspectors take account of the use made of option appraisal and links to approved business cases prepared and approved in accordance with SCIM requirements.

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