RIBA Health Client Forum Seminar: Directing the Future of Healthcare Design

The RIBA Health Client Forum is hosted  a one day seminar on the management of NHS Trust estates. Issues to be explored included planning and design, the ownership and leasing of estates and how the NHS delivers services in a changing society.

Guest speakers included David Flory Department of Health Director General of Finance, Performance and Operations, Martin Fletcher Chief Executive of the National Patient Safety Agency, Chris Potter, Managing Director of PHS Architects and Susan Francis of CABE.

'Designing appropriate buildings for today's health care is not at all easy. Medical technology is accelerating rapidly and care systems need to change with them.

Trying to predict how these changes will go in the future is fraught with danger. This one day seminar has been designed to look a fresh at the issues and the effect they will have on the health estate. It is a precursor to a number of case studies on leading edge projects, designed to assist designers, planners and managers achieve excellence in health care design.'

Bill Murray OBE

RIBA Health Client Forum Chair