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Rehabilitation - accommodation for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy - HBN 8
Health Building Note 8 (1991), Rehabilitation - accommodation for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy, focuses on District General Hospital accommodation requirements for:
- Physiotherapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Consultant medical staff
Since these services seek to rehabilitate patients physically, psychologically and socially, this Note recommends and assumes that therapists and other specialist staff will be closely involved from the earliest stages of any project.
Contents of Health Building Note 8
1: Scope of Health Building Note 8
- lntroduction
- lnclusions
- Exclusions
- Capricode
- Cost allowances
- Equipment
2: General service considerations
- Purpose and objectives
- Service strategy and factors influencing planning
- Future developments in treatment etc
- Organisation and staffing relationships
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Adolescents and children
- Factors affecting demand
- Assessment of requirements
- Functional sizes
- Transport
3: General functional and design requirements
- lntroduction
- Disabled people
- Planning and design
- Location
- Access
- Planning relationships and organisation
- Amputees
- Medical and other relevant professional groups
- Patient/staff movement and activities
- Safety
- Electra-magnetic Interference
- Layout
- Therapy records
- Catering and domestic services
- Supplies
- Physiotherapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
4: Specific functional and design requirements
- lntroduction
Departmental accommodation
- Entrance
- Reception/Records
- Main waiting space
- Consultant
- Secretarial staff
- Seminar room
- Staff room
- Staff changing
- Staff WCs
- Patients WCs
- Patients changing
- Splint preparation
- Assessment/Quiet Interview room
- Storage of linen
- Children's therapy area
- Cleaners space
- Disposal room
- Electrical switchgear
- Outdoor activities
- District staff
Physiotherapy
- Superintendent physiotherapist
- Physiotherapy staff office
- Activity area
- Treatment cubicles
- lndividual treatment room(s)
- Wax treatment and Ice preparation
- Staff base
- Sub-waiting space
- Storage
- Physiotherapy for ward areas
Hydrotherapy
- Entrance
- The pool
- Pool services
- Pool counter-current unit
- Staff changing
- Patients/Staff changing
- Patients rest area
- Showers
- Laundry/Utility room
- Storage requirements
- Plant rooms
Occupational therapy
- Head occupational therapist
- Occupational therapy staff office
- Activities area
- Light activities area
- Heavy activities area
- Storage
- Timber and metal
- On-going work
- Materials and equipment
- Community disability equipment store
- Assessment wheelchairs
- Occupational therapy for ward areas
Activities of Daily Living
- Bedroom
- Bathroom
- Kitchen
- Utility/Laundry room
Speech therapy
- Chief speech therapist
- Speech therapy staff office
- Individual treatment room
- Group treatment room
- Viewing facilities
- Storage
- Waiting space for patients
5: General guidance
- Introduction
- Works Guidance Index
- Statutory and other requirements, including Crown immunities
- Upgrading and adaptation of existing buildings
- Fire precautions
- Smoking
- Economy
- Damage in health buildings
- Security
- Signposting
- Internal spaces
- Education and training
- Natural and artificial lighting
- Ventilation
- Flooring
- Maintenance and cleaning
- Design features
- Component Data
- Courtyards
- Information technology in the NHS: Provision for Automatic Data Processing (ADB)
6: Engineering services
- Introduction
- Model specifications
- Economy
- Maximum demands
- Space requirement for services
- Activity Data
- Safety
- Fire safety
- Noise
- Control access
- Engineering commissioning
Mechanical services
- Introduction
- Heating
- Temperature controls
- General ventilation requirements
- Ventilation for hydrotherapy suite
- Controls for general ventilation systems
- Controls for hydrotherapy suite ventilation system
- Plant rooms
- Hot and cold water systems
- Hydrotherapy pool water circulation system
- Hydrotherapy pool water treatment plant
- Patient hoist for hydrotherapy pool
- Piped oxygen and medical vacuum
Electrical services
- lntroduction
- Electrical Installations
- Electrical Interference
- Lighting
- General purpose socket-outlets and power connections
- Socket-outlets and floor cleaning equipment in the hydrotherapy pool hall
- Power connection for pool counter-current unit
- Emergency electrical supplies
- Staff location system
- Call systems
- Telephones
- Wireways and data Iinks
- Electric clocks
- Lightning protection
Internal drainage
- Design parameters
- Operational considerations
- Materials specification
- References
7: Cost information
- lntroduction
- Works cost
- Essential Complementary Accommodation (ECA)
- Optional Accommodation and Services (OAS)
- Dimensions and areas
- Circulation spaces
- Communications space
- Engineering services
8: Activity Data
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