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Toolkit launched to help GP practices improve buildings
FTSE 250-listed real estate investment trust, Assura, has launched a ‘toolkit’ to help GP practices improve their buildings, and the physical environment for people with disabilities and conditions such as dementia, neurodiversity, and anxiety. The ‘Designing for
Everyone’ kit brings together best practice on design aspects including colour, lighting, acoustics, fixtures and fittings, wayfinding, artwork, and use of space – giving primary care sites the chance to assess their environments, and ‘find small, low-cost actions to make them better for everyone’. Assura explained: “The tools can be used by practice managers, premises teams, and patient groups, to better understand how the design and layout of their health centre building works for people with a range of needs. It’s believed to be the first integrated resource of its kind to focus specifically on design principles to support people living with dementia, neurodiversity, and conditions like anxiety.” Written by the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester, the toolkit draws on research into best practice design for people living with dementia, neurodiversity, and conditions like anxiety, and earlier studies with Assura by the national charities, Dimensions and the Patients Association. It will form part of Dimensions’ suite of training resources for general practice in its #MyGPAndMe campaign, and will also
Emergency power for new Aberdeen health facilities
UK power generation specialist, DTGen, has been appointed to supply and install the emergency power solution for the new £244.8 m development of The Baird Family Hospital and ANCHOR Centre for NHS Grampian at the Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen. At The Baird Family Hospital, three 1100 kVA synchronised generators, 16,000 litre structural base tanks, and supporting infrastructure, will be installed at the site, which replaces the existing Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, and encompasses a number of additional services, including breast screening, breast
surgery, and gynaecology services.
The purpose- built ANCHOR Centre will provide new
be rolled out by Assura in its approach to designing new primary care buildings and delivering extension and improvement works to existing sites. The launch follows Dimensions’
2019-20 research with disabled people on their experiences of primary care buildings, which found that only 22% of respondents felt independent in health centre environments, under half felt toilet facilities met their needs, and almost half felt ‘worried’ in such environments. To download the ‘Designing for
Everyone’ guide, summary assessment tool, and full assessment tool, visit:
http://www.dimensions-uk.org/ designingforeveryone
accommodation for oncology and haematology outpatient and day patient services to be co-located, and will be supported by a 500 kVA generator and structural base tank with 12,000 litre fuel storage.
Once complete, The Baird Family Hospital will be around 26,000 m2 in size, with over 1,000 rooms, and have physical links into Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital to allow easy patient transfer. The ANCHOR Centre is scheduled to open to patients in 2023, followed by The Baird Family Hospital in 2024.
Armitage Shanks debuts new sanitaryware innovations
Armitage Shanks’s latest product innovations include a new clinical washbasin (pictured), and a prototype for a TMV (thermostatic mixing valve) shower tower. It says the new clinical washbasin
concept innovation harnesses its years of experience in improving infection control in healthcare environments. Created with the goal of eliminating cross-contamination from splashing, the washbasins feature a new waste assembly, which simplifies maintenance, while following best practice guidance from the Department of Health’s HBN 00-10 Part C: Sanitary assemblies. The new TMV shower tower prototype is designed to be fully compliant with
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UK hospital regulations, and ‘suitable for installation in all layout arrangements’. The company said: “In fact, the TMV shower tower prototype incorporates several features that make it ideally suited to hospitals and clinics – including insulated copper pipework with hot and cold recirculating loops, and a 1 metre grab rail, which helps keep people safe from scalds, while supporting those with limited mobility.” Armitage Shanks recently hosted a
Water Safety Forum at its London Design and Specification Centre, which looked
specifically at the updates to the British Standard 8580-2: Water quality - Part 2. Risk assessments for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other waterborne pathogens. Code of practice. Non-Residential Marketing manager, Anil Madan, said: “The standard heavily encourages a ‘no blame’ culture, and a ‘growth’ mindset, where –
similarly to a black box in an aeroplane – we can take learnings from past mistakes, and communicate between teams to learn as much as possible from them.”
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