Royal Philips Electronics has installed an LED lighting and control system within the Premier Suite of The Yorkshire Clinic in Bingley, in the process “creating an ambience more akin to an upmarket hotel”. Rooms have also been equipped with Philips flat screen televisions.
Coloured LED lighting around the bedhead units allows the patients the freedom to change the look and feel of the space depending on their personal mood or requirements. Philips said: “The ambience can be changed almost endlessly via a simple touchpad facility – in colour, saturation, and intensity. Thus variable coloured light, from saturated hues through to soft pastel tones, can be created to relax the patients.” Alongside helping lessen the tension, anxiety and stress patients typically feel when entering hospital, the LED lighting reportedly only uses 25% of the energy of equivalent conventional light fittings.
