Health Care Environments

In the context of a major new hospital building programme within the NHS in the UK, CAHHM has become interested in the impact of good design and planned art work on patient satisfaction and patient outcomes within hospitals. We have carried out a large scale project at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough (see report) and have recently started a study focusing specifically on NHS Chaplaincies. This research is being carried out collaboratively with the Department of Anthropology and with colleagies in Architecture at the University of Newcastle.

Celebratory Arts and Primary Health Care.  A report on a reconnaissance visit by Welfare State International to Withymoor Village Surgery, Brierley Hill, West Midlands.  January 1988.

Report

• Designing for Health: Architecture, Arts and Design at the James Cook University Hospital Report for NHS Estates (PDF) (last modified: 4 April 2006)