Three projects shortlisted in the European Healthcare Design Awards
We have been named as finalists in three categories at the prestigious European Healthcare Design Awards, following judging from an international panel of experts.
The awards celebrate and recognise professional excellence in the design of healthcare environments both in Europe and around the world.
Designed in collaboration with Architype, our Passivhaus Cavell Community Health and Wellbeing Hub is a finalist in the Future Healthcare Design category. This recognises future projects that can demonstrate the potential for outstanding outcomes, in alignment with the strategic requirements to transform health services, regionally or nationally.
Setting a bold new vision for the sustainable delivery of community health services, our exemplar Health and Wellbeing Hub integrates clinical and social care models to address the broad influences of health and wellbeing. Following on from our work with NHS England to envisage the future of integrated community healthcare facilities, the building is one of six pilot schemes for its Cavell Centre programme, and the only one designed to Passivhaus standards.
The design strategy focuses on providing spaces for nature-based social prescribing activities, including outside exercise classes and gardening groups.
A clear wayfinding route around the central courtyard connects all departments integrating the clinical departments with the building’s public wellbeing hub.
Completed in 2018, our pioneering Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre is a finalist in the Design for Sustainable Development category. This recognises exemplar healthcare projects completed over 5 years ago that have demonstrated fitness for purpose, flexibility and high performance over time.
The pioneering Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre is the first of a new class of NHS facilities to cater for the needs of an increasingly elderly population, providing out of hospital care and reducing the need for hospital admission. Adopting an entirely new way of delivering health services, the centre brings together a range of specialist services to provide a more holistic approach to health, care, and social support.
2024: Taken six years after the building was completed, this image shows the maturing quality of the landscaped entrance boulevard.
2024: Taken six years after the building was completed, this image shows the care that has been taken to preserve the quality of the internal spaces.
Kimmeridge Court Eating Disorders Unit is a finalist in the Mental Health Design category. This recognises mental health projects that, through innovative design thinking, balance the need for a humanistic environment for patient recovery, with the requirements for appropriate levels of safety, security and supervision.
Kimmeridge Court has been carefully crafted to preserve the quality of its outstanding natural setting and to create a uniquely private and therapeutic environment for the treatment of patients with eating disorders. Through close consultation with patients and clinical staff, the facilities have been designed to enable patients to re-establish a positive relationship with food and exercise.
Kimmeridge Court has been designed to take full advantage of the quality of its natural context.
The finalists in each category will present to the judges to decide the winners which will be announced at the closing ceremony of the European Healthcare Design Congress on 11 June.