A new report from the NHS Confederation – the membership organisation that ‘brings together, supports, and speaks for, the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland’, sets out how the NHS capital regime can be improved ‘to deliver on the government’s missions for health and economic growth’.
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A new rehabilitation facility like few others
Two ‘state-of-the-art’ new hospital wards have opened at the Western Community Hospital in Southampton, providing specialist rehabilitation care to people living in and around the area. Their opening has seen patients and staff re-located to the new facilities from two ageing rehabilitation wards at the nearby Royal South Hants Hospital.
Misericordia ED will ‘care for body, mind and soul’
Jan Kroman, a Principal at Canada’s Rockliff Pierzchajlo Kroman Architects, based in Edmonton, Alberta, discusses a project to create a new Emergency Department at the city’s Misericordia Community Hospital.
Swapping gas-fired systems with heat pumps
Simon Witts, a director at VA Sciences – a scientific consultancy based in Vermont, Victoria, in Australia, which offers a fully developed suite of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) services, discusses the integration of heat pumps into existing hospital systems. He examines the challenges and necessary adaptations for...
The Arctic care facility built to serve Inuit elders
Jeff Penner, a Senior Associate at Verne Reimer Architecture in Winnipeg, Canada, discusses the design of new long-term care facility in the Arctic in Canada’s largest, easternmost, and northernmost territory, built on the foundation of Inuit cultural awareness, dignity, and respect.
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