Publications & studies

Our publications cover the wide spectrum of planning, management, and design of buildings for healthcare.

Publications

Healthcare Buildings for Tomorrow: Developing a 2020 Vision

This is a report of a seminar held at the BMA in 1999 for the Nuffield Trust. The seminar focused on developing a vision for the design of environments for health care in the next century. Central to this vision for 2020 is the concept of a network of healthcare environments with the patient at the centre of modern dependable services, customised to local health and environmental needs.

50 Years of Ideas in Healthcare Buildings

This book commemorates the achievements of 50 years of ideas for the design of buildings for healthcare, since the establishment of the NHS in the UK. The book focuses on key ideas that have been influential in healthcare design. Within a UK contextual framework of changing ideas and knowledge in medicine, architecture, building, society and healthcare policy, four viewpoints have been developed: the role of research and development; the impact of the systems and standards programme; the interaction of theory and practice; and a review of current ideas about health building design.

Innovative Environments for Rehabilitations

This study identifies from literature and practice innovative services and environments for rehabilitation in community settings. Twelve case studies demonstrate the different directions that these services are taking.

Scanning the Spectrum of Care from Hospital to Home

This MARU study "Scanning the Spectrum of Healthcare from Hospital to Home" explores levers for change and trends in healthcare delivery patterns such as:

• The impact of demography, ideology, technology and economics on healthcare patterns in the UK.
• Possible and optional locations for some key elements of service delivery within the organisation of the NHS as a whole, in a spectrum stretching from the hospital to the patients home.
• The subsequent impact on healthcare building design

Designing Primary Care Premises: a resource

This book is intended as a resource to provide GPs with indications, signposts and guidance on how to effectively work with architects in ensuring that any primary care facilities are appropriate, effective and meet both the present and future needs of GPs in delivering high quality services. The book has been designed as a series of questions and issues to allow GPs and their staff to discuss a range of important issues which need to be resolved at the planning and design stage.

Studies

Acute Hospitals: Whole Hospitals Study

• Evaluation of Homerton Hospital (1992)
• Evaluation of Colchester Hospital (1987)
• Nucleus Hospitals: a comparative evaluation (DoH Nucleus Study No 24)(1987)
• Evaluation of Newham Nucleus General Hospital: Summary Report (1986)
• Evaluation of the Countess of Chester Nucleus General Hospital: Summary Report (1985)
• The use of space in old hospitals: Farnborough Hospital study (1982)
• Space utilisation in hospitals: Frimley Park Hospital study (1978)
• Space utilisation in hospitals: Lister Hospital study (1978)

Acute Hospitals: Wards

• Ward evaluation study: Oxford adult acute ward (1989)
• An evaluation of wards for the elderly: Milford Hospital (1989)
• Intensive therapy and coronary care units: case study analyses (1988)
• Intensive therapy and coronary care units: postal survey report (1988)
• Ward layout and nurse staffing: a review summary (1981)
• Ward layout and nurse staffing: a review of the literature (1981)
• Ward layout and nurse staffing: a report on three case study hospitals (1981)
• Provision of oxygen and suction outlets in bed areas: summary and conclusions (1979)
• Provision of oxygen and suction outlets in bed areas: final report (1979)
• Ward evaluation: St Thomas' Hospital (1977)
• Reduced bed spacing in hospital wards (1971)

Acute Hospitals: Other Departments

• The design implications of caring for people suffering from AIDS (1987)
• Operating theatre provision and utilisation: Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampon (1987)
• Evaluation of accident and emergency department at the Countess of Chester Hospital (1986)
• The use of resources in accident and emergency departments (1986)
• Outpatient space needs at the RTNE Hospital (1986)
• Preparation of sterile supply requirements in Nucleus operating departments (1985)
• St Bartholomew's Hospital: an appraisal of theatre provision (1985)
• Theatre provision in a DGH (1985)
• Rehabilitation services accommodation (1984)
• A workload model for hospital sterilisation and disinfecting units (1984)
• Evaluation of supply and disposal systems at Greenwich District Hospital (1983)
• Education centres in hospitals (1983)
• Provision and utilisation of operating theatres: summary report (1981)
• Provision and utilisation of operating theatres: final report (1981)
• Staff changing accommodation in hospital: an appraisal of options and issues (1980)
• Central changing areas: evaluation of space provision at Kings Lynn Hospital (1979)
• A study of one aspect of flexibility in outpatient department planning (1970)

Mental Health Facilities

• Building for the mental health: stick to your principles (1990)
• Estimating the cost of community based accommodation for mentally ill people (1989)
• Daycare services for adults with severe learning difficulties: Space utilisation study (1989)
• Planning community based accommodation for mentally ill people (1988)
• Strategies for contraction of a large mental illness hospital (1986)
• Day centres for the mentally ill in adapted premises (1980)
• The environment of the adult training centre (1977)
• Hostels for mentally ill in ordinary housing (1976)

Community Facilities

• Evaluation of Ystradgynlais Community Hospital (1988)
• Evaluation of a community hospital: Mold Hospital, Clwyd (1988)

Primary Care Facilities

London Initiative Zone Primary Care Premises Handbooks:

1. Strategic planning
2. Procedures, procurement and funding
3. Case studies
4. Planning and design information

• Report on the criteria for the provision of facilities for minor surgery (1993)
• Utilisation of treatment suites in health centres and group practices (1979)
• Utilisation of consulting suites in health centres (1977)
• The health visitor in primary care: study of health visitors in two health centres (1977)
• Health centres handbook (1973)

Future Health Buildings

• Hospitals of the future: transcript of presentation to NAHA AGM (1988)
• Information technology and the design of future health buildings: final report (1987)
• Information technology and the design of future health buildings: progress report (1985)

Methodology

• Functional suitability and space utilisation: progress so far (1988)
• Health buildings manual (1987)
• Functional suitability and space utilisation: assessment methods (1986)
• Provision and planning of buildings for the health service (manual and video)(1985)
• Examples of multi-use of space in hospitals (1977)
• Space unitisation in hospitals: concepts, methodology and preliminary results (1977)
• The development of a classification framework for selecting case study hospitals (1976)
• The planning team and preliminary organisation machinery (1975)
• First phase of an investigation into the education and training needs of health facility planners (1973)

Health Services General

Hospital design and the National Health Service:

• Part 1 (1974)
• Part 2 (1975)
• Part 3 (1997)