Patient Experience

Special report: Transforming Heatherwood Hospital

BBH speaks to the team behind the new Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, which maximises its woodland setting to rethink hospital design

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New centre to tackle health inequalities

Slaithwaite Health and Wellbeing Centre aims to tackle health inequalities by offering personalised care

Great grandfather hails ‘magical garden’ at Manchester hospital

ICU patient sees his dream of a therapeutic hospital garden realised

First NHS Healing Garden supports more than 1,200 people in first six months

Joint venture between RHS and the NHS to be rolled out to more sites

The role of technology in supporting the home care sector

CareLineLive is a leading digital app to provide real-time scheduling, updates, and insights for carers, agencies, family, and friends, supporting...

‘Our plan for patients’ is also a plan for GPs

Paul Bensley (pictured below), managing director of X-on, argues that political turmoil should not distract from a policy paper that makes importan...

New food and drink standards to drive up quality in NHS facilities

All NHS organisations now required to meet new national quality standards

Why a national grid approach could be the key to tackling the NHS backlog

Dr Bahman Nedjat-Shokouhi, chief executive and co-founder of Medefer, talks about how the health service can increase flexibility within the workfo...

Special report: Designing a new model for children's hospitals

BBH speaks to the team behind the design of the new Cambridge Children's Hospital, a project which is setting a benchmark for the future of paediat...

Plans submitted for UK’s most-sustainable hospital

ACORN consortium submits plans for new Velindre Cancer Centre

Building Better Healthcare Awards 2022 - The winners

Find out who took home the trophies at yesterday's ceremony

Comment: As healthcare changes, data integration must change with it

Arjo Boendermaker, a healthcare consultant, argues that the spread of healthcare networks across Europe and the UK means new thinking is needed abo...

From the frontline: Delayed transfer of care is more than just lost bed days

Ed Hutchison (pictured), a doctor at University Hospitals Bristol and Western NHS Foundation Trust, and senior solutions specialist at Altera Digit...

Digital tools in the NHS - do the rewards outweigh the risks?

With more than 350,000 digital health apps on the market, and an average of 250 new solutions released every day, Ross O’Brien, managing director f...

Low-tech gadgets have the biggest impact for older people

Research by the University of Stirling reveals that low-tech interventions have a transformative effect on wellbeing and safety of older people liv...

Could cloud telephony data help secure QOF access points?

This year’s NHS quality and outcomes framework puts a new emphasis on access. In this article, Derrick Measham (pictured below), head of research a...