Healthcare Design
Specialists in healthcare design
Drawing on years of collective experience, our healthcare designers work with the goal of positively impacting health and healing.
Sharing a passion for the NHS, supporting the evolution of the service to find solutions that meet the urgent needs of the post-pandemic backlog and neglected estates, our healthcare design process flow follows a flexible approach, allowing designers to work closely with you to create bespoke healthcare designs which incorporate both innovative solutions and best practice, as well as being driven by your individual needs.
Healthcare architects will support you throughout your healthcare construction project – from concept design and the steps following a project’s sign off, including technical drawings, coordination of project designs in line with current and emerging HTM/HBN guidance and all allied statutory compliance, as well as high level budget information.
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Create: Design Development
Following the detailed discovery into your clinical requirement, strategy and site appraisal as part of our understanding phase, your hospital design team will work with you to bring together architecture, interior design and detailed clinical planning to create a lasting solution that fulfils your specific needs, all within a time-frame to help build better healthcare, faster. Ideas are developed into diagrams and drawings, technical due diligence and planning is completed.
At this stage the objective is to translate the strategic brief into a defined project, with a concept design and detailed cost plan.
Design development disciplines:
- Technical due diligence
- Concept design workshops
- Concept design leadership review
Create: Developed Design & Spatial Co-ordination
This stage takes the concept design into a fully detailed design ready for procurement and construction. The detailed technical design is created and co-ordinated, and a detailed delivery programme and methodology is formed.
Developed design workflows include:
- Design management
- Outline and detailed architectural design
- MEP design
- Fire strategy report
- Structural design
- Feasibility studies
- Planning applications
- Cost plan
- Financial planning and cost advice
“At Health Spaces we work smart with the technology we use. All our projects run in our Autodesk Construction Cloud Hub whether on the drawing board or on site, and we combine all disciplines using Building Information Modelling – from MMC sub-contractors to building services engineers.”
Max Lishmund, Head of Design
Drawing on years of healthcare design expertise
With years of collective experience in healthcare design, the design team supports NHS Trusts and healthcare providers to find creative solutions to challenging requirements – from complex site conditions to planning negotiations. This often includes addressing sensitive planning or listed building issues, working with client bodies that may consist of several government agencies and appraising awkward sites that can place a strain on the procurement process.
“Design is at its most rewarding when we work closely with building users; clinical and non-clinical – staff and patients. We can solve difficult problems and help to evolve new practices together, while always looking ahead to future opportunities and needs.”
Jaime Bishop, Healthcare Architect
Stakeholder engagement
Healthcare architects and designers will work with you from the very start of your estates journey to understand your individual requirements including patient and staff experience, clinical outcomes and operational efficiencies. As with all of our healthcare design work, we take the time to find out how we can support the user and users through design.
Stakeholder workshops include:
- Clinicians
- Estate teams
- Patients
- Finance teams
- Landscape architects
- The wider community
Shaping the future of healthcare together
The inclusion of VR technology into our project design phases encourages an immersive design collaboration between end users and the design team – from the early stages of developing the strategy and understanding behind a new space, through to the design and delivery programme. Once at handover stage, we are also able to support the wider clinical engagement and training process through a series of staff engagement workshops which can also include the use of VR.
“The fact that the building was designed ground-up for the purpose of being a reporting space, tailored to the service and its users, allows the staff to feel like it is their space… To have had the chance to have input into the design and specification, through to seeing the building delivered and to getting the imaging equipment installed, has been a great process to be part of.”
Hinesh Patel
Imaging Systems Officer, Leicester General Hospital
“As part of our Concept Ward we are developing a research proposal to really look at how we measure those benefits and whether they have had the intended benefits we think they have. Whether it’s improvements in infection control, length of stay, quality of care, patient feedback, staff feedback. All of that put together – what are the benefits – will help us to inform decisions as we move forwards to a New Hospital Programme.”
Paul Morris
Chief Nurse, James Paget University Hospital
“Health Spaces have provided the Trust with a very professional multidisciplinary service in designing a very impressive Orthopaedic Centre to meet the needs of our Orthopaedic Service. Health Spaces worked alongside the Trust to develop the design, providing a set of design solutions in a very fast-tracked timescale, meeting the high time and quality demands the Trust put upon them. Their team demonstrated high levels of knowledge and expertise which is clearly demonstrated within the final design proposals.”
Senior Capital Projects Manager
Design for health and healing
We believe that design is the most powerful tool for solving problems for useful buildings, and no design project is more important or challenging than designing for health and healing.
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Building for the future
Sustainability in healthcare construction isn’t just about using sustainably sourced building resources. As a creator of nurturing healthcare environments, we understand our duty of care to ensure we consider the future impact on our environment.
The full life cycle of the building, including construction, maintenance and disposal will be considered when the project is designed to ensure minimum impact on the planet for the duration of the building’s lifetime. We carry out detailed assessments to best guide our designs in order to achieve the highest sustainability standards.
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“Our buildings are designed to be used: lived in, worked in and healed in. They are for the present, the future and the past of a place and the people that engage in them, not merely the designer at the instance when the hoarding is demounted.”
Jaime Bishop, Healthcare Architect