Regulation 6 Key criteria

quality, that is the need to ensure good quality services,

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,

collaboration and service sustainability, that is the extent to which services can be provided in—

so as to improve health outcomes, which includes the stability of good quality health services or service continuity of health services,

improving access and reducing health inequalities, that is ensuring accessibility to services and treatments for all eligible patients, and

social responsibility, that is whether what is proposed might improve economic, social, environmental, and cultural well-being in the geographical area relevant to a proposed contracting arrangement.