The ‘urgent need to re-think how hospitals are designed, built, and maintained, to prevent the ongoing crisis of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs)’, is highlighted in a new report, The Silent Pandemic: Healthcare Infections and the Need for Better Hospital Design, released by the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) this week.
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Staff praise UK’s firstWELL Gold health facility
Sharon Cook, Healthcare lead at P+HS Architects, reflects on how the 10 WELL Concept areas were embedded into the design of the Northumbria Health and Care Academy, the UK’s first healthcare building to achieve WELL Gold certification, creating a workplace that the practice says ‘champions wellbeing, connection, and clinical excellence’.
Better healthcare using data-driven insights
The NHS estate is under increasing strain due to underinvestment, rising demand, and a £13.8 bn maintenance backlog. While high-quality estate is available, much of it remains underutilised, and optimising these assets is essential as the NHS shifts towards out-of-hospital care. Here, Baxendale Senior consultant, Kelsey Price, and head of...
Maintaining the Golden Thread is ‘fundamental’
David Hemming, a highly experienced Chartered Civil Engineer who heads the Estate and Major Programme area within the NHS Shared Business Services Consulting team, argues that the so-called ‘Golden Thread’ – a complete digital record of information about a building, from its design and construction, to its ongoing maintenance and use – ‘represents...
A ‘flexible, cost-effective’ route to extra capacity
Alan Wilson, managing director of ModuleCo Healthcare (MCH), a provider of modular healthcare buildings in the UK, explains how – with budgets especially tight – modular construction, utilising a usage-based revenue agreement solution, enables NHS Trusts to ‘access state-of-the-art healthcare facilities without the huge capital investments...
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