All Healthcare articles – Page 21
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FeaturesEnvironmental health professor Richard Jackson
‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’
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Building StudyA garden for England
A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent
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FeaturesCan private clients restore hospital design to health?
Whenever a new healthcare building is praised for good design, the unspoken addendum of “good for healthcare” is left hanging in the air.
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Building StudyLift and celebrate
In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards
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NewsBrent PFI care centre finished
A £63 million PFI healthcare project by HLM Architects has been completed.
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FeaturesIs culture or environment to blame for sickness in the NHS?
The National Health Service: much praised around the world, but never copied. But at least we lead the world in irony.
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NewsHewitt approves seven PFI hospitals
Healthcare architects received a massive boost this week as health secretary Patricia Hewitt approved seven PFI hospitals with a total value of £1.5 billion.
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NewsMake’s luxury redevelopment of Westminster City Hospital goes to planning
Make has submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council for this luxury redevelopment by Candy & Candy of the derelict 1.2ha Middlesex Hospital site, which it bought last year for £175 million.
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News
Community hospital programme ditched
Plans for the next generation of healthcare buildings were in tatters this week after the government appeared to abandon a promise to build 50 community hospitals.
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NewsKaleidoscope children's health centre by van Heyningen & Haward
Following a year of planning and 18 months construction, architect van Heyningen & Haward has completed work on Kaleidoscope, its new children’s health centre for Lewisham Primary Care Trust.
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Building StudyMaggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.
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News
PFI buildings ‘exceptional', says new health minister
Newly appointed health minister Andy Burnham gave a robust defence of PFI this week, saying the system had produced some "exceptional" hospital buildings.
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Jowell: some health buildings ‘appalling'
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell outlined a new Cabe campaign last week to improve the "many appalling places" that exist in the health sector.
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NewsThe changing face of healthcare...
The looming revolution in healthcare architecture could even surpass the radical changes which transformed hospitals in Britain with the creation of the NHS in 1947.
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News
All clear for £2.2bn health procurement
A controversial £2.2 billion system for procuring healthcare buildings has been given a last-minute reprieve by the government.
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Opinion
Can Cabe resuscitate hospital design?
After five years in the business of persuading ministers and civil servants that good design counts, the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment is still struggling to weave its magic with the health mandarins.
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News
Percy Thomas team eyes Iraq health work
A team including Capita Percy Thomas and Iraqi-born architect Ali Mousawi has a scoping study for three hospital projects in northern Iraq, BD can reveal.