The Challenge Designing spaces that support, enrich and enable good health and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at Gilling Dod. Change is a constant in the provision of healthcare, with patient demand increasing, workforce pressures continuing to grow, new and novel treatments and technology being developed, all within the context of a healthcare estate that is ageing and often not ‘fit for purpose’. As a result, the role of design and designers in the provision of health and wellbeing spaces has never been more important, and will be central in creating a new generation of facilities that will not only address these challenges, but will also facilitate a life long improvement in health and wellbeing for the patients and communities for which they are provided. At Gilling Dod we have a depth of experience that means we understand that health and well being spaces need to be designed to be flexible and adaptable in order to respond to change in a timely and cost effective manner. They need to embrace technology, not only for treatment but to enable staff to provide the best possible care and to open up access to treatment and information for patients so that referral/diagnosis/treatment timeline is greatly reduced. And that these spaces are able to built to a consistently high standard, in a sustainable manner and to an acceptable cost and timescale. Whilst all of the above are already in our grasp, we see our role as designers is to take all of these technologies, skills and experience and create a design process and ultimately a health and well being space, that has ‘people’ and the understanding of their needs and emotions at it’s very centre. Only by empowering patients, relatives and staff to share their experiences and using this knowledge to underpin our decisions as designers will we be able to design a new generation of health and wellbeing spaces that will be able to respond to the financial, practical and clinical challenges that face us all, but within human and healing spaces that provide reassurance, stimulation and a sense of care and understanding. Ulltimately we are all users of health and wellbeing spaces during our life and we strongly believe that their design should show that ‘Health Matters’.
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