# The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 5: Key criteria


The key criteria are—
(a) quality and innovation, that is the need to ensure good quality services and the need to support the potential for the development and implementation of new or significantly improved services or processes that will improve the delivery of health care or health outcomes,
(b) value, that is the need to strive to achieve good value in terms of the balance of costs, overall benefits and the financial implications of a proposed contracting arrangement,
(c) integration, collaboration and service sustainability, that is the extent to which services can be provided in—
(i) an integrated way (including with other health care services, health-related services or social care services),
(ii) a collaborative way (including with providers and with persons providing health-related services or social care services), and
(iii) a sustainable way (which includes the stability of good quality health care services or service continuity of health care services),
so as to improve health outcomes,
(d) improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice, that is ensuring accessibility to services and treatments for all eligible patients, improving health inequalities and ensuring that patients have choice in respect of their health care, and
(e) social value, that is whether what is proposed might improve economic, social and environmental well-being in the geographical area relevant to a proposed contracting arrangement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252613/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/regulation-5
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