LambyLou

Thank you all for doing the survey, your comments here are also very much appreciated. It's an interesting area of work, having looked at what feeds into the design of hospitals. It is obviously an iterative process, as more is being learned of how designers, project managers can fit taking samples of the people who actually work in the buildings into getting the best value for money for the client (NHS) within the time frame they have got. It is only when the building has been built, that the current methods of evaluation (Post-Occupancy-Evalution; (1)Indicative, (2) Investigative & (3) Diagnostic) and performance measuring can feed into the next building cycle of (perhaps another) hospital. It is particularly interesting that it seems (from these comments) that you think hospital design is moving backwards!

Thank you so much! (:

Hi, I'm currently writing my dissertation on the building performance evaluation of healthcare buildings in the NHS and would really appreciate if any nurses could please fill in my online survey, it shouldn't take too long (: https://selectsurveys.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8431895 Thanks! Lou I'd just like to add that this piece of work could really help in the framework of the design of future hospitals, and improvement of existing hospitals; particularly in regards with allowing nurses/staff to work more comfortably, optimising how well staff perform, as well as, minimising patient stress and therefore recovery times. Comments would be super useful, even though I know it takes a little bit more time than just the selecting options.