About Architects for Health

This independent group was formed over ten years ago by architects to bring together individuals and organisations who share an interest in excellence in healthcare facility design - read more about Architects for Health...

Membership of Architects for Health is open to healthcare facility designers, planners, clinicians and those who share our aims - how to join Architects for Health...

Continuing Professional Development

Architects for Health is the only ongoing CPD programme in Healthcare Architecture and Planning.

All AfH Events are CPD accredited. Furthermore, due to our status as a RIBA Linked Society, all Events are considered RIBA Events, and therefore attendees can claim double CPD points.

AfH Diary of Events: 2008

Watch out this space, more details and dates are to be agreed/confirmed soon:

28 February - AfH: Annual Reform Club Debate

17 April - AfH: Design for the Older Adult in the Acute Sector

19 June - AfH: Sustainability & Hospitals

15 August - AfH: Second Student Health Design Awards

18 September - AfH: Designing for Hospital at Home CANCELLED

14/15 October - AfH at Harrogate Exhibition

26 November - AfH: Children's Hospitals and Recent Research + AGM (Note change of date)

AfH Events Diary from 1993...

What's New

AfH Event: Children's Hospitals and Recent Research + AfH AGM - please note that the date for this Event has changed - it will now be taking place on Wednesday 26 November 2008

Winners of the AfH Second Student Health Design Awards announced! The winner was Elaine Neish (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) and the Second Prize was awarded to Chi-Hang Chim (University of Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands)

AfH Sustainability & Hospitals - Presentations Four of the 'PowerPoint' presentations from the AfH half-day seminar are now available to view online - more information

International Union of Architects (UIA) – Winners of the International Competition 'Transmitting Architecture' announced (PDF). The projects are displayed online at http://www.infopoint.uia2008torino.org/vincitori.aspx.

Obituary - Ross McTaggart

Supporting Research - Invitation to participate in a survey on hospital ward design This survey is part of a PhD research on hospital design with particular reference to hospital ward design criteria at the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The aims of this survey are: to gain insight into professionals’ priorities of ward design criteria which may help policy makers to develop hospital design regulations and guidelines; and to evaluate professionals’ awareness of the importance of particular ward design criteria. These criteria have been chosen based on in-depth interviews with a group of experts in hospital design in the UK - more information

General Information

How to find Department of Health Design and Technical Guidance: Department of Health Design and Technical Guidance is available free to NHS employees via a login process through the NHS Estates Knowledge & Information Portal (KIP) - more details

Other Events

4-7 Sept 2008 IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing and Expo Ageing and Design Montréal, Canada

9/10 Sept 2008 Think International Conference Preston, UK

10 Sept 2008 Electromagnetic Phenomena and Health - A Continuing Controversy?, London

14/15 Oct 2008 Healthcare Estates Conference & Exhibition Harrogate, UK

8-11 Nov 2008 Healthcare Design 08 Washington DC, USA

13 Nov 2008 Building Better Health Care Awards London

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