Hospitals: Simulator to drive down infections
Computer simulations showing how patients and staff move around inside hospitals are helping civil engineers make modifications to help control…
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Putting pressure on airborne contaminants
Maintaining a high negative pressure in airborne infection isolation rooms of hospitals (over -10 Pa) and in renovation sites (over…
How do nurses say goodbye?
In nursing there are many ways of saying goodbye when the therapeutic relationship ends. Some patients bid a cheery goodbye,…
Ideal gifts for someone in hospital
What's the ideal gift to bring someone who is in hospital? Hospitals can be very tedious places for patients and…
30-year NHS bed crisis
Every day we hear more horrifying stories of people lying on trolleys in A&E for hours at a time, whilst…
Step forward medical concierge
In my opinion, the days of big clunky hospitals filling thousands of beds will soon be a relic of the…
Paintings in Hospitals
This is not going to discuss Art Therapy – the medicine of the creative process in art – one of…
Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond
Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond at the Wellcome Collection Rebecca Wallersteiner explores ‘Bedlam’ and the rise and fall of the…
Where have all the nurses gone?
Adrift and deserted, the disappearance of the crew from the Mary Celeste remains a mystery. Walking onto a hospital ward…
Legal headache for medics
I am a hospital doctor who is thinking about leaving the profession I love. It is not because I doubt my…
Hospitals out of thin air
What do you do when there are no hospitals and there is a desperate need? You bring an oversize inflator…
Posh hospitals for a better birth?
The BBC2 TV series, Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital, professed to be an ‘exclusive glimpse inside the UK’s…