Appendix: Our recommendations

Governance and accountability for three Christchurch rebuild projects.

Bus Interchange

We made no recommendations for the Bus Interchange project.

New Central Library

Christchurch City Council has already made several changes to strengthen its governance arrangements for the New Central Library project.

We recommend that Christchurch City Council continue to strengthen the new governance arrangements that are in place for the project by:

  • clarifying project accountabilities at all levels; and
  • reviewing regularly the new governance arrangements to ensure that they are bringing the improvements to governance that were intended.

We recommend that Christchurch City Council review and strengthen its quality assurance processes for its major capital projects, including the New Central Library project.

Acute Services Building

To strengthen the governance arrangements for the Acute Services Building project, the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) has identified a programme of work that addresses some of our findings. This work is at an early stage. Our recommendations refer to aspects of the Ministry's programme of work.

We recommend that the Hospital Redevelopment Partnership Group, the Ministry, and Canterbury District Health Board work together to agree and clearly record their roles and responsibilities and lines of accountability. This should include lessons from other parts of the public sector that use similar governance models.

We recommend that the Ministry and Canterbury District Health Board continue to work together to finalise arrangements for transferring ownership of the Acute Services Building and related assets from the Ministry to Canterbury District Health Board.

We recommend that the Ministry and the Hospital Redevelopment Partnership Group review and strengthen the quality assurance processes for the Acute Services Building project.

We recommend that the Ministry prepare standard processes and guidelines for working with district health boards in projects that use the same governance model as the Acute Services Building project.

We recommend that the Ministry increase its capacity and capability for the major health capital projects that it is required to manage.