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EuHPN 2011 Workshop, Bologna 12-14 October
10/20/2011 - 13:49

This year's EuHPN workshop took place in Bologna, Italy, from 12 to 14 October, with the theme 'Sustainable European Healthcare Infrastructure: Innovation in procurement, planning and design for a green future'.  You can download the final programme here.

EuHPN is very grateful to the speakers and other audience participants, to our hosts SIAIS (Italian Society for Healthcare Architects and Engineers), and to our workshop partners LCB-HEALTHCARE.  We look forward to welcoming EuHPN members and others to next year's workshop - venue and date to be confirmed.

EuHPN would like to gratefully acknowledge the support offered by our workshop sponsor:

Independent Review of Ireland's National Paediatric Hospital
07/14/2011 - 12:22

The Executive Director of EuHPN has recently chaired an independent review of the proposed location of the National Paediatric Hospital of Ireland.

Planning for a new National Paediatric Hospital in Ireland has been underway for some years.  After a series of high level reviews of paediatric services, a National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was established to take the project from the concept stage to detailed plans for the hospital’s design.  The recent reverses in Ireland’s economy, coupled with a change of government, prompted a need to re-assess the project, and Ireland's Minister for Health and Children opted to make use of international expertise to accomplish this.

EuHPN 2011 Workshop: 12-14 October, Bologna, Italy
03/26/2011 - 18:01

Sustainable European Healthcare Infrastructure: innovation in procurement, planning and design for a green future

 

This year’s European Health Property Network workshop is being organised in partnership with LCB-HEALTHCARE, a European Lead Market public procurement network that aims to stimulate innovation for low carbon, sustainable, green solutions in the healthcare building sector.  The hosts for the 2011 workshop are the Società Italiana dell’Architettura e dell’Ingegneria per la Sanità (SIAIS; Italian Society for Healthcare Architecture and Engineering).  Download the preliminary programme and registration form here.

EuHPN Report on Guidelines and Standards
03/24/2011 - 23:09

Healthcare facilities are public buildings, and therefore have to meet national minimum standards in relation to fire safety, staff and patient safety, and – often – areas such as light levels, accessibility for disabled visitors, air quality, and a number of other basic measures.  These standards are normally enshrined in legislation, and may therefore be embodied in the guidance offered by professional bodies, consultancy companies, and other relevant agencies.

 

EuHPN 2010 Report
03/24/2011 - 22:27

The 2010 EuHPN workshop has been captured in an event report, thanks to input and help from colleagues from Loughborough University, UK, who are part of the Health and Care Infrastruture Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC).  You can download the report here.  The workshop examined the theme of ‘big bang’ versus ‘incremental’ development of the health estate, with speakers invited from a range of disciplines, organisations and countries, to contribute to a programme that had three main sub-themes: