How can healthcare design improve staff wellbeing, retention and job satisfaction across the NHS?

Can architecture improve patient outcomes, whilst also enhancing the wellbeing of NHS staff? Regional director Gareth Banks is joined by Victoria Head, director of commercial and performance, Dr Barney Senasinghe, senior consultant, both at Archus, and associate director, Vicki Shepherdson, as we explore this question.

We discuss the fundamental changes needed to accommodate the evolving needs of the NHS. How can we design to shape a sustainable, efficient and healthy workforce?

Dr Barney brings his first hand experience of working in these high pressure environments and the importance of staff engagement from the outset when developing these spaces.

As architects, Gareth and Vicki share how challenging the brief and incorporating mixed use facilities, can transform hospital design.

And Victoria highlights the significant impact that excellent healthcare spaces can have not only on staff wellbeing, and immediate patient outcomes, but also the social and economical benefits they can bring to their surrounding areas.

In this episode, we refer to a few technical abbreviations. For those who may be unfamiliar with these we have defined them below:

PFI - Private Funding Initiative

HCA – Health Care Assistant

HBN document – Health Building Notes

HCM document – Health Technical Memoranda

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