Since September 2019, when the Government announced funding for a major hospital building programme, Trusts throughout the UK have outlined strategic cases for redevelopment projects.
Yet, with the recent outbreak of COVID-19, ask Jane McElroy and Bryan Langlands, Principals at architectural practice, NBBJ, how can Trusts adapt their briefs to account for design changes and the need to flex for future challenges in the long term?
Learning from the response to COVID-19, and with further future pandemics deemed highly likely, the implications for the design of hospitals – whether renovations, alterations, or new construction and planning – are being considered and rethought. One priority is to create true flexibility within our healthcare settings to care for surges of infectious patients, while protecting other patients and staff. For this, we have to think beyond just the patient room, with consideration for protection and isolation at multiple scales. Below, we outline four ideas on how to create more flexible and safe healthcare spaces, gathered from insights working with healthcare across the world.
1 The Building
Flow and overflow
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