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50 Years of Ideas in Health Care Buildings
BMJ 2000; 321 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7254.182 (Published 15 July 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;321:182
- David Williams, former general practitioner
- Holywell, Flintshire
Susan Francis, Rosemary Glanville, Ann Noble, Peter Scher
Nuffield Trust, £20, pp 68
ISBN 1 902089 20 0
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Many of us will spend our last weeks of life in a six bedded bay of a hospital ward. Will there be a view from the window? How far will it be to the toilet and will it be occupied on arrival? Will the nurse be able to see me and I her? Suddenly, architecture matters. Read this book to discover why treatment rooms were introduced and why every bay does not have its own …
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