Environments for Quality Care Health Buildings in the Community

This guide, for people who purchase, manage or deliver healthcare, and for architects, shows how good design can help to achieve contentment and satisfaction, rather than irritation and discomfort in local health buildings. These range in size from GP surgeries to community hospitals, and in settings from inner-city areas to the suburbs and countryside.;It seeks to: provide guidance on design for health buildings in the community; relate this to a policy to provide high-quality health services as near people's homes as possible; highlight factors which most influence a patient's perception; advise on achieving quality and value for money in design; and show examples of local health buildings which are seen as successful by the patients and staff who use them.