Architects for Health Executive Committee

Chair: John Cooper B.A.(Hons) Dip. Arch. Cantab RIBA
Email: chair@architectsforhealth.com
As chair of Architects for Health, John wants to raise the quality of design in healthcare and improve and reform its architecture by engaging in an active programme of events, discussions and visits.
John Cooper is Director of John Cooper Architecture. He combines a wide experience of management and leadership with enjoyment of designing buildings. John has expertise in the design of housing, education, university and regeneration projects. He combines an expert understanding of health planning with genuine design skills at both a strategic and a detailed level. He has an ability to engage with clients and end users.
John is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and overseas and has written for all the architectural professional journals in the UK.

Secretary: Paul Murphy Grad DipArch (Dist), DipArch RIBA
Email: secretary@architectsforhealth.com
Paul Murphy was appointed Secretary for Architects for Health in December 2010 and is assisting with the management and organisation of the society.
Paul has a keen interest in the role architecture plays in shaping our healthcare environment and has twenty years experience of working in this sector.
Following earlier experience with Avanti Architects and thirteen years with Todd Architects, Paul established his own practice in 2007 and has designed a wide range of healthcare facilities and has seen these delivered through a variety of procurement routes. The range of projects Paul has worked on include primary care centres through to the masterplanning of acute hospitals.

Treasurer: Jane McElroy
Email: treasurer@architectsforhealth.com
Jane wants to develop AfH as a sustainable, knowledge-sharing organisation that can extend its message across the UK and abroad.
Jane is a Principal at NBBJ Architects, an international practice with extensive experience in healthcare design. Over the past fifteen years, of her architectural career, Jane has focused on healthcare projects ranging in scope from a highly acclaimed ambulatory care and diagnostic centre to major academic teaching hospitals. In particular, she has directed her efforts to initial briefing, user engagement, medical planning and the integration of these aspects within the broader design process.

Jaime Bishop MARCA RIBA
Email: awards@architectsforhealth.com
Jamie is trying to encourage healthy debate and scrutiny of healthcare. He conceived and organises the AfH Annual Student Healthcare Design Award which launched in 2007.
Jaime Bishop is a Director at Fleet Architects in London and has sat on the Executive board of AfH since 2006. Originally Jaime’s involvement in AfH was to stir up more critical debate of design in healthcare at a time when the country was undertaking an unprecedented hospital building program. Allied to this aim Jaime conceived and organised the student design award. The dual aim of the competition was to attract architecture students to explore exciting and challenging healthcare topics, which Jaime views as a fertile and under-explored territory, while also trying to inspire existing practitioners within the sector.

Claudia Bloom BA Hons, Dip Arch Hons, RIBA
Claudia has been a member of AfH and subsequently a committee member for quite a few years now…. Her involvement with healthcare design commenced with a hospital client who had dispensed with all traditional briefing tools. Since then she has found healthcare design to be one of the greatest intellectual and design (resolution of complexity with inadequate budget) challenges of the world of architecture. Claudia enjoys organising visits and trips to new buildings in the UK and abroad and these have included Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Peterborough…
Claudia has worked at Avanti Architects since 1994 and was appointed a director in 2002.

Vicky Braouzou Dip Arch Eng., MSc Hons, ARB
Vicky is actively engaged in the development and running of the AfH website. She is also concerned with making best use of communications for the organisation. Having benefitted herself as a young architect newly-involved in healthcare design from the wealth of knowledge that AfH offered, she joined the Executive Committee in 2009, keen to help further the reach of this knowledge community.
Vicky is an architect at Avanti Architects.

Membership Secretary: Roy Carroll BA.Dip Arch. MA RIBA
Email: members@architectsforhealth.com
As a way of sharing interest and knowledge to improve our work, I want to see AfH grow, raise our visibility, strengthen our voice and increase in number those of us who could benefit from the wealth of expertise within our membership.
To help achieve this in practical terms, as membership secretary, I am involved in trying to recruit new members, keeping our mailing list up to date as well as trying to reconnect with members whose contact details have changed. I also remind members to renew subscriptions. This is essential since our finances are dependent on annual subscriptions and event sponsorship.
Roy Carroll is an Architect at BDP working on major projects in the healthcare field. His interest in healthcare design started at WGI in the 80s until the recession at the end of that decade gave him the opportunity to work with VSO on school projects in Bhutan and refugee projects in Nepal. After returning to the UK he renewed his interest in healthcare design and obtained a masters degree at the Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU).
His later experience includes: Planning and consultancy work for foreign ministries in East Africa and South Asia; Major projects in the healthcare field; Leading teams planning large general hospitals; Developing proposals with clinicians, contractors and co-ordination with other design team consultants.

Carole Crane Dip Arch. RIBA
Carole’s aim at present is to help steer the issue of proper briefing and the future production and use of Guidance Notes. Too much time is spent talking about the problems; AfH could be proactive and become instrumental in forcing all parties to act in unison to bring about change and innovation.
Carole currently works as a freelance healthcare planning consultant, primarily with Archealth, a company she formed together with Glynis Meredith-Windle, clinical nurse planner. She has recently retired from full time employment as a healthcare architect formerly working for HLM Architects in their London office.
Carole’s teachers and mentors have traced a direct line from the pioneering work of LDW in the 1960s and 70s and she has applied the lessons she has learned to all the schemes she has worked on. Her experiences have made her determined to do things better and to try to educate the next generation of young architects to do the same. She has succeeded in persuading many a new graduate that there is more to hospital design than room loading and has encouraged several to tackle creatively the apparently repetitive problems encountered in hospital design.

Rosemary Jenssen
Rosemary’s aim is to help promote Best Practice in healthcare design to the widest possible audience.
Rosemary was educated at the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Wales College Cardiff. She was appointed as Devereux South’s Head of Healthcare in 2010, having joined the practice from John.R.Harris Partnership in 1996. Rosemary has been involved with the production of design proposals for a number of award winning healthcare projects, ranging from refurbishments to major new build redevelopments. She has successfully delivered projects under a variety of different procurement routes including traditional, develop and construct, PFI and the ProCure 21+ framework. Rosemary is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK, CEE and the Middle East.

David McNish
As care design becomes more specialized, it is vital that we share information, and my aim is to support and promote AfH as an ideal forum for advancing this.
David has worked as an architect working at Hunters since 1990. He has been involved in the care sector since the early 1980s, from ‘conventional’ care homes to specialist units for residents with multiple disabilities, including Acquired Brain Injuries. He has designed a pioneering care village design as well as acting as client technical advisor for specialist care home PFI transfers. He has also completed a number of NHS and private mental health units, including secure units, and is currently involved in the interface between mental health and nursing care, implementing the latest ideas in designing for dementia. He is also involved in more general hospital refurbishment projects with leading Trusts.

Tim Peters
I am bringing a health planning view, focusing on ensuring that briefing gets the attention it deserves for all healthcare projects. At the same time making sure that the wider health economy gets involved.
Tim is a co-opted member of AfH. He is currently Healthcare Development Manager for Sir Robert McAlpine. Previously, he had been the Framework Manager for Integrated Health Projects (a ProCure 21+ PSCP). IHP is a joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine and Vinci Construction UK. Tim brings to AfH over thirty years experience in healthcare projects, many as a health planner, both in the UK and internationally.

Chris Sherwood
Chris is responsible for developing sponsorship for AfH events and activities. Chris has always been a strong believer in the strength of AfH as a vehicle for disseminating information on important issues in healthcare design and thereby raising overall healthcare design standards.
Chris first joined the AfH executive committee in 2005, after many years as a member. He is Director of International Development at Nightingale Associates, and has extensive experience, in healthcare projects, specializing particularly in major PPP hospital developments, and strategic hospital planning. Chris has presented on design quality in the healthcare PPP process at international conferences in France, Singapore, and South Africa, and was a member of the NHS Design Review Panel.

Architects for Health Presidents

Joint Presidents: Ray Moss and Ann Noble

Staff

Admin support: Magdalena Marek BA, MA
Email: events@architectsforhealth.com
Magda organizes the administration for the events and manages the website.

 

Programme Director: Susan Francis BA (Hons); AA Dip; MARCA
Email: info@architectsforhealth.com
Susan is a founder member of Architects for Health and is passionate about achieving good quality design for healthcare and making Architects for Health a centre of excellence for disseminating and sharing good practice.
Susan’s recent experience as Special Advisor for Health at CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) includes chairing the NHS Design Review Programme, directing research and policy development with the Department of Health on community hospitals and sustainable design, and devising and developing the Future Health Initiative.
At the NHS Confederation Susan worked with the Future Healthcare Network to facilitate a learning network for NHS Trusts engaged in major capital developments for hospital, primary care and mental health services.
Qualified as an architect, Susan has worked in practice and as an academic developing research, presentations, publications and post graduate training in the UK and abroad.