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European Healthcare Design 2022

Recovery, renewal & rediscovery: Planning a climate-smart healthcare system

13–15 June 2022

Future Hospital 2050

New “innovation” series on SALUS TV to explore the future hospital to 2050

In the new year comes an exciting new webinar series on innovation in healthcare planning and design, examining some of the key drivers transforming the way critical healthcare services are being delivered now and in the future to 2050.

EHD Awards 2022

Call for Entries launched – submissions deadline 24 February

The Call for Entries for the European Healthcare Design Awards 2022 is now open.

Plenary theme

Recovery, renewal and rediscovery: Planning a climate-smart healthcare system

The climate crisis is a health emergency. And global healthcare systems are uniquely placed to provide leadership across society, leveraging scientific, economic, social and political influence to accelerate a transformation towards a net-zero health sector and wider world.

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Climate-smart healthcare

EHD 2021: Opening Plenary

This keynote session featured three leading experts discussing many of today’s big healthcare and design challenges, including an emphasis on environmentally sustainable healthcare and regenerative architecture.

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New Hospital Programme

EHD 2021: Keynote Plenary: UK health infrastructure

This keynote session was dedicated to UK health infrastructure and the New Hospital Programme – the UK Government’s commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030.

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Pandemic response

EHD 2021: Keynote plenary: the Covid-19 Global Summit

This session introduced the opening keynote plenary of the COVID-19 Global Summit, a ‘conference within a conference’.

Wayfinding

Designing wayfinding systems for (neuro)diversity

Poster pdf

Presenters: Louise Havskov Kristiansen et al.

Innovation

Digitalisation – navigating with care

Poster pdf

Presenters: Louise Havskov Kristiansen et al.

Access to nature

Cognitive design: adaptive biophilia for older hospitals

Poster pdf

Presenters: David Navarrete et al.

Awards

Insights from award-winning international health projects

Integrated Health Projects’ framework director Alan Kondys looks back at the winning developments from this year’s European Healthcare Design Awards 2021 and considers what lessons they may provide for adopting innovation in health infrastructure in the UK.

Opening keynote plenary

EHD2021: “If you can’t adapt you will die – and that’s true for healthcare”

Charles Darwin’s interpreted observation that it’s neither the most intellectual nor the strongest of the species that survives but the species that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself was the final message of Royal College of Physicians’ president Dr Andrew Goddard’s keynote talk during the opening plenary of the 7th European Healthcare Design Congress.

Awards

EHD Awards 2021: Winners revealed

As has become tradition, the European Healthcare Design Congress 2021 was brought to a close with a ceremony to celebrate the winners of the European Healthcare Design Awards 2021, supported by Integrated Health Projects (IHP) and category sponsors Hoare Lea and Medical Architecture.