Sykehusplan is a web-based centre for the exchange of experience and information concerning hospital planning and hospital development.  Operated by Norway's SINTEF Health Research, and owned by the Directorate of Health and Social Affairs, Sykehusplan is mainly focused on hospital projects in Norway.  However, the site's blog and news sections contain all manner of links and opinion pieces from around Europe and the world. 

The same site will also take you to information about the Competence Network for Hospital Planning (CNHP), an open network for organisations and persons working with or interested in planning and constructing health care buildings, organising or operating hospitals, plus research and development in these fields.

Click here to visit Sykehusplan.no.

As part of the Low Carbon Building: Healthcare project, partners are conducting a brief web survey of stakeholder views on the barriers to effective, innovative procurement of low carbon solutions for healthcare buildgings.  You are invited to take part - all you need to do is click here and answer a few questions.  The survey will take only a few minutes, and your responses will help to shape a report to be published later in the year.  If you haven't already done so, you can also sign up as an LCB stakeholder. 

The Low Carbon Building Healthcare project is aimed at creating a European Lead Market Public Procurement Network to stimulate innovation for Low Carbon Building Solutions in the Health Service Sector. 

EuHPN is a partner in this EU Commission-funded project.  Join us at the LCB website, where you can sign up to become a stakeholder.  We welcome interest from everyone involved in commissioning and procuring healthcare infrastructure and equipment, as well as all those public and private organisations involved in the supply chain.

This year's EuHPN workshop was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in collaboration with Locum AB and Karolinska Institutet.  Participants came from all corners of Europe, but we were also fortunate to have a number of colleagues join us from Australia. 

EuHPN is currently working on a report of the the workshop, in collaboration with colleagues from the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC).  This will be available after the summer on this website - watch this space.