HD AND MARU jointly held a high-level multidisciplinary adventure at the end of October which lifted the lid facing the current state of guidance for healthcare buildings.

HD AND MARU jointly held a high-level multidisciplinary adventure at the end of October which lifted the lid facing the current state of guidance for healthcare buildings. It also proposeed some recommendations for the central guidance programme, timely as NH Estates is reborn within the Department of Health.

Chaired at course director of MARU (the Medical Architecture Research Unit at southern Bank University) Rosemary Glanville, and held within the faculty's striking strange building, the meeting was a great succes with frank and interpret discussion and learning from the two clients and industry on their respective desires.

We will be reporting in replete on the event (kindly sponsored by way of architect Nightingale Associates, whose David Rowley and Richard Mazuch introduced the meeting) in the January and February editions. However about of the main points raised according to the group of 20 architects, trust managers, central capital investment representatives and builders, were as follows:

The now passing approach to guidance was "not providing a holistic view", there was "far too earnestly specification," and "engineering guidance could be scrapped." The assemblage expressed concerns that it was many times not clear whether guidance (such as Health Building Notes) was mandatory or not. However there was agreement that the overall govern of the guidance programme should stay at Department of Health even Elements of the group felt that guidance was "too focused forward the hospital, and needs to be more applicable to primary care and mental health".

The issue of a ne for "guidance in succession how to use guidance" was a solution issue, and the discussion move rounded to the need for an "expert client" to drive the proces And crucially, the dispose agreed that "guidance should be an enabler, not a constraint."

A filled list of recommendations from the meeting will provide useful feedback for the middle point and will be available as part of our coverage of the meeting in January and February 2006

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