Project Concept Documentation
Recording the concept of your project - clearly, completely and traceably.
Project concept documentation is the disciplined recording of a hospital project's concept for the DPR: capturing the concept statement, the purpose and care model, the initial scope, assumptions with their bases, and early decisions with their rationale - into structured records with versioning and approvals. It gives the concept a complete, traceable record that feasibility work and planning can carry forward without losing the why.
What this service covers
- Concept statement and its records
- Purpose, care model and initial scope
- Assumptions and their bases
- Early decisions and rationale
- Structure, versioning and ownership
- Approvals and sign-offs
- Traceability into planning and the DPR
- Consistency of records across stages
- Completeness and quality checks
- Handover of the documentation set
Our process
- Define what the concept record must capture
- Structure the documentation set
- Compile the concept records with bases
- Run completeness and consistency checks
- Secure approvals and ownership
- Hand over the documentation set
Frequently asked questions
How is documentation different from concept development?
Concept development shapes the concept - its purpose, model and scope. Documentation comes after: structuring, versioning and approving the record of that concept.
How is it different from a hospital planning report?
The planning report consolidates completed planning work. Concept documentation records the concept stage itself, before and alongside that work.
How is it different from investment documentation?
Investment documentation records the capital, funding and financing case. Concept documentation records the clinical and service concept of the project.
What does the documentation include?
The concept statement, purpose, care model, initial scope, assumptions with their bases, early decisions and the approvals and ownership behind them.
Why does the concept need formal documentation?
So decisions remain traceable, consistent and defensible when the concept is carried into feasibility, planning and the DPR.