Healing the Hospital Environment

This is an accessible guide to healthcare premises interior and exterior design and refurbishment for the non-specialist with practical advice and lists of UK organisations and suppliers for specialist advice, materials and funds. Healing the Hospital Environment identifies why many healthcare premises do not look or feel welcoming and why even well-intentioned efforts to make improvements are unsuccessful.The authors show that significant improvements can be made within limited resources if hospitals recognise what can be achieved, set standards and invest in the relevant design expertise. It gives a wide range of examples of effective improvement in design, maintenance and management of all types of hospital and healthcare premises and their surrounding land.