Sept 2019: The Future Hospital - transformative healthcare
Series: Creative Thinktanks
Tags: health and wellbeing, hospitals, Thinktank
Creative Thinktank
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top ranked and top performing hospital trusts in London, providing care across two hospital sites and seven clinics to a community of over one million people. Over the past five years they have been laying the foundations to implement the next generation of healthcare – the new technologies, design and systems that will transform patient care pathways and operational efficiency. Their portfolio of next generation care projects includes:
- The RELAX Digital programme which uses imagery and installations to distract and relax patients in waiting and treatment areas
- New Instruments designed specifically to offer a depth of creative expression whilst contributing to a patient’s physical rehabilitation
- MyHospital – technology enhanced patient care such as sensors to monitor light levels, acoustics, temperature, controlled from a patient’s bedside
- An expanding digital health devices/robotic programme
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This Thinktank, co-created by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Snape Maltings Creative Campus, will bring together leading researchers, policy-makers, clinicians, practitioners and other stakeholders to consider physical/technological/human/natural/artistic/cultural aspects of The Future Hospital. In particular, it will explore how these elements can be integrated to provide the ideal hospital environment conducive to:
Facilitated by Katherine Zeserson, discussions will embrace a wide range of perspectives, stimulate fresh thinking and lead towards collaborative developments in transformative healthcare.
The Thinktank will take place at Snape Bridge House in Suffolk on 9-10 Sept 2019. For more information, contact Jess Chapman: jchapman@snapemaltings.co.uk