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The whole hospital briefing and operational policies - HBN 2

Health Building Note 2 (1993), The whole hospital briefing and operational policies, in conjunction with HBNs 1 and 3, introduces those new to health building to the planning, design and construction of a District General Hospital.

It focuses on:

• the briefing process, through which the purpose and nature of the proposed buildings are made clear, and information required by building professionals to enable them to design a building is assembled;
• the formulation of operational policies that particularly affect the content, working and design of the hospital as a whole.

Contents of Health Building Note 2

1: Scope of Health Building Note 2
• Introduction
• Statutory and other requirements
• The Nucleus hospital planning system

  2: Review of the briefing process: context procedures and objectives

• Context and procedures
• Purpose and objectives
• Interaction with design
• General principles of briefing

  3: Functional content, functional units and costs

• Capital costs
• Running costs
• Level of provision
• The relationship between design and running costs
• Whole Hospital policies and running costs
• Designing for integrated energy saving
• Phased development

  4: Briefing at Capricode stage 1

• Feasibility studies and identifying the preferred option
• Summary

  5: Briefing at Capricode stage 2

• Objective
• The budget cost
• Statement of detailed Whole Hospital policies
• Departmental policies
• Extensions and adaptations
• Sources of information
• Design Briefing System
• Schedules of accommodation
• Schedules of equipment
• Briefing information as a basis for determining costs
• Readiness to proceed to design
• Summary

  6: Briefing at Capricode stage 3

• Objective
• Activity data
• Activity DataBase (ADB)
• A-Sheets
• B-Sheets
• D-Sheets
• Using Activity DataBase
• Briefing for environmental design and services engineering
• Equipment schedules
• Summary

  7: Whole Hospital policies

• Introduction
• Site access and site traffic
  
  General; points of entry; disabled people; pedestrians; bicycles; cars; ambulances; goods; fire-fighting vehicles; public transport; helicopters; traffic control; car-parking,;signposting
• Access to buildings
  
  General; disabled people; goods; night access
• Internal traffic - within buildings
  
  Patients; staff; visitors; goods; internal signposting; portering
• Security and the safety of staff and patients
  
  Theft; vandalism; cost effectiveness and other factors
• Fire precautions
  
  Current guidance; nucleus schemes; general considerations; structural precautions and means of escape; staff training
• Accommodation for general management and other services
  
  Organisation; location and general relationships; general management; nursing management; medical staff; medical common rooms
• Clinical policies
• Admissions Health records department and patient administration systems
  
  Whole hospital implications
• Materials handling (supply, storage, distribution and disposal)
  
  General; supplies organisation and policy for storage; distribution and disposal system
• Sterile services
• Catering
  
  General; meals services; washing-up policy; staff catering; visitor's catering services
• Domestic services
  
  Services provided; guidance
• Linen and uniforms
• Occupational health services
  
  Current guidance; service provided; facilities required; location and general relationships
• Education and training
  
  General; accommodation; guidance
• Social work
  
  General; facilities required
• Religious facilities
  
  Services provided; facilities required; location and general relationships
• On-call accommodation
• Staff facilities
  
  Changing
• Residential accommodation
  
  Medical staff; nursing staff; professional and technical staff; ancillary staff; security
• Voluntary Services
  
  General; facilities required
• Income generation
• Communication systems and automatic data processing planning
  
  Telephones and intercom systems; intercommunication systems; staff location system; patient radio and television systems; personal attack alarms; clock systems; central alarm monitoring; provision for automatic data processing
• Management of the estate
  
  Management and operational arrangements; building maintenance; engineering services maintenance implications; ground maintenance implications; works emergency plan; fuels

  Appendix 1: Glossary

  Appendix 2: Summary of Capricode stages

  Bibliography