ABSTRACT
The provision of health services, and therefore the design of
hospitals and other health facilities, has long been a politically
charged issue which is subject to frequent policy change; the
agendas and administrative structures which govern the provision
of healthcare in the UK obviously impact on the design of the
health estate, but this is a subject which is far too vast and change-
able to set in detail here. The broad principles of hospital design,
and notions of best practice, described below were accurate at the
time of publication.
