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 - Workshop and Presentation: All architects are aware of the importance of the impact of sustainability on all buildings and have a reasonable grasp of the principals in theory. What is lacking for many architects is a sufficient understanding of means implementing the theories and generic requirements into practical design and specification for a project, particularly for health buildings - more

15 August - AfH: Second Student Health Design Awards: Following the success of last years awards, Architects for Health is pleased to announce its second Annual Student Health Design Awards which are to be held at the RIBA London in August 2008. As with last year, entries will be taken of all student healthcare related designs - more

18 September - AfH: Designing for Hospital at Home

14/15 October - AfH at Harrogate Exhibition

27 November - AfH: Children's Hospitals and Recent Research + AGM

AfH Events Diary from 1993...

What's New

Call for Papers – Ageing Design Montreal Deadline for abstracts extended to 30 May 2008! Submit an abstract now!

Call for Entries - Building Better Healthcare Awards - The Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Awards, will take place on 13 November 2008 at The Brewery in London. This year the Awards are celebrating their 10th Anniversary. Deadline for entries 30 June 2008 - more information

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

Watching Video Makes You Healthier On 29 April 2008, the Artscape Gallery will become the first art gallery to create a natural world video installation that never loops at the University College Hospital in London. Art has a powerful presence at University College Hospital (UCH) in London which is part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Exhibitions are regularly held in the UCH street gallery and a number of permanent installations are on display in the hospital - more information

Call for Papers - Topical Healthcare Estates 2008. Deadline 4th April 2008 in order to be considered for the IHEEM Healthcare Estates Conference. Healthcare Estates 2008, being held at Harrogate International Centre (14-15 October), will have as its key theme "clean, safe and sustainable" environments for care, a particularly topical slant given the past year's emphasis on the importance of clean, congenial and safe healthcare facilities for NHS patients - more information

HD online article review on The AfH Reform Club Debate, by Marc Sansom "Architects must be free to develop their design vision without the burden of leadership, pleaded a lone voice at the Architects for Health Reform Club Debate last week..."

Review - AfH Reform Club Debate 2008 by Peter Scher

BREEAM Healthcare (BRE Environmental Assessment Tool) will be a mandatory standard for all new build and refurbishment healthcare developments in the UK from July 2008. To promote the new BREEAM Healthcare scheme, BREEAM are holding seminars to introduce the scheme at BRE, Garston, Watford. Next seminar on 19th March - more information and booking

Obituary - John Osbourn ARIBA AA Dipl.

HaCIRIC Symposium - The Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre

Call for Papers - DESIGN & HEALTH - 6th World Congress and Exhibition 24-28 June 2009, Singapore 15 April 2008 Deadline for receipt of Abstracts
The International Academy for Design & Health invites proposals to be submitted for the Design & Health 6th World Congress and exhibition (WCDH 2009) in Singapore, to share knowledge and stimulate debate about new research, market trends and professional practice. Download First announcement and call for Papers for 6th World Congress in Singapore here!

Competition - International Design for new hospital in Finland 2008

Pictures - Annual AfH Reform Club Debate 2008

AfH Event - Annual Reform Club Debate 28 Feb 2008

Mama Maria Wellness Clinic Kenya: Sponsoring needed to help building a Health clinic in Kenya, more details.

AfH: Chairman's Annual Report for 2007 AfH Chair, Ann Noble, reports on the activity of Architects for Health over the last year, read now

GUPHA Forum in Tokyo Japan 2007 by Graham Cooper, with links to PowerPoint presentations, read now

AfH First Student Health Design Award: Winners, Short listed and full list of Participants, more details.

Patient-Focused Architecture for Health Care Architects for Health, in collaboration with Arts for Health, is now able to supply copies of this Study and Video/DVD

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

8 May 2008 Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists Conference – with the participation of Ann Noble, Chair of Architects for Health, and Richard Mazuch of Nightingale Associates - programme

8 May 2008 Investing in Primary Care: A New Vision for Health Services and Infrastructure London, UK

18 May 2008 The Health Implications of Geopathic Stress London, UK

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

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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