Healthier Places

Supporting the creation of truly healing places and healthier communities across Scotland.

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Pulse

Pulse is the Healthier Places case study and image database

News

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12/11/2011

World Health -a quick look at recent health awards outwith Scotland

At the Building Better Health awards in London, NHSGlasgow’s new Stobhill ward block won the Best Acute Care Design Award.
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08/11/2011

Facility provision and design focus of Scottish Healthcare Conference 11

The annual HFS Scottish Healthcare Conference 2011, focussed this year on 'Facilities: Supporting Scotland's Health',
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08/06/2011

Creating healthy living neighbourhoods

The Academy of Urbanism 2011 Annual Congress (11th-13th May 2011) in Glasgow focused on the theme of neighbourhoods. The Living Neighbourhoods session focused on housing and health .
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Features

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Commissioning Healthcare Developments - reference guides

by Kate Nicolson

Short reference guides for those involved in commissioning healthcare developments for the first time.
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Local Development : Public Assets

by Kate Nicolson

A mapping exercise looking at the effect of local development planning approaches on the healthcare estate using Inverness as an example
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Circulation in multi-service facilities - quick reference guide

by Kate Nicolson

A quick reference guide to the implications of different organisational diagrams on the utility, amenity and cost of shared facilities.
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Guidance

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Introduction to Design Statements

by Heather Chapple

Design quality has become part of the business case approval process for NHSScotland projects. This assessment includes a Design Statement.
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Blog

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Planning Cities : Public Assets

by Heather Chapple

Getting the most out of healthcare development starts a long time before even the breifing stage - it starts at the point we set strategies for the development of our communities and decide where new homes might be and how they will be linked and ser
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Health Library

Useful web resources for people involved in building healthcare facilities.

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Events

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Our Partners

Healthier Places and Pulse are operated in partnership with the Scottish Government and Health Facilities Scotland

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