All Healthcare articles – Page 19
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NewsLubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre to be sold off to private sector
Berthold Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell, north London, is set to be sold into private hands after NHS officials this morning rejected a last-ditch effort by Architects for Health to preserve the building’s 70-year association with public healthcare.
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Firms picked for Scottish healthcare framework
Aedas, Keppie Design and Nightingale Associates are among a crop of practices to have made it onto a massive £900 million framework to design hospitals and healthcare facilities in Scotland.
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NHS agency wins design award
The NHS’s National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has received an award for its use of design in improving patient safety.
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NewsAnshen & Allen’s healthy win
Anshen & Allen has seen off competition from BDP and Swanke Hayden Connell to land one of the biggest healthcare contracts in Northern Ireland in recent years.
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NewsHospital art to take patients' minds off the wait
Sustainable waiting room installation in Rome will be powered by solar PVs
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NewsLiverpool hospitals officially open
Health secretary Alan Johnson (right) has officially opened the redevelopment of two Liverpool hospitals by Nightingale Associates.
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Architects in the running to win Scottish healthcare work
Nightingale Associates, BDP and Reiach & Hall are among the architects in the running to win a slice of a £900 million deal to build hospitals and major healthcare facilities across Scotland.
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TechnicalHealthcare
The Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer can be found in many Healthcare locations as it is the only hand dryer to have a HEPA filter – drying hands in just 10 seconds using purified air.
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Building StudyRogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital is a place like home
A sense of abstract domesticity pervades the first Maggie’s Centre to be built in England — at challenging site at Charing Cross Hospital
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Health trusts are bypassing PFI for major new projects
A healthcare procurement system which architects claim is a massive improvement on PFI is to be used for the first time on some of the largest hospital building projects in the pipeline.
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Sheffield critical care unit unveiled
A cutting-edge critical care department designed by Race Cottam Associates has been unveiled in Sheffield.
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FeaturesHealthy inspiration
Five architects at Penoyre & Prasad have chosen five inspirational healthcare buildings, and now we want you to choose yours — for a chance to win a book on healthcare design
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Building StudySheffield hospital’s new medical ward is a picture of health
Sheppard Robson brings colour and clarity to NHS design.
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FeaturesWhy do we need miracles to deliver decent NHS design?
Sylvie Pierce, chief executive of Building Better Health, on the crippling number of advisers in the NHS.
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FeaturesConcrete costings in healthcare design
Study finds little cost variation between concrete and steel construction
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FeaturesFinnish city holds health facilities contest
The city of Espoo in Finland and the Finnish Association of Architects have issued a call for ideas as the first stage of an international competition to find a new design for the city’s central health facilities.
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FeaturesFocus on the ‘what’ not the ‘how’, says Northern Ireland health procurement chief
Chief executive of Health Estates in Northern Ireland, John Cole, explains how good design can improve healthcare.
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Devereux clinches Cardiff health centre
Devereux Architects has been appointed to design a health centre in Cardiff by Primary Asset, a private sector developer of health centres, GP surgeries and pharmacies.
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FeaturesBuschow Henley on how to score an NHS healthcare project
Plastik Architects is about to merge with another practice and wants to secure larger commissions.
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FeaturesBiofuel to power new building for Great Ormond Street Hospital
A £321 million development for London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital by Llewelyn Davies Yeang hopes to shrink its carbon footprint with measures that include a commitment to biofuel.