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European Healthcare Design 2024

10–12 June 2024
Call for Papers

The Call for Papers has been launched for the 10th European Healthcare Design Congress 2024, the plenary theme of which is ‘Natural Intelligence: Creating self-learning health systems’.

Plenary theme

Faced with the challenges of implementing climate-smart healthcare systems, delivering new service and asset models that strengthen resilience, and creating humanistic environments that promote wellbeing, how do we create self-learning health systems?

Health spending

The UK and many other developed nations are facing myriad challenges in strengthening resilience within our healthcare systems, but there are opportunities to seize that can help us in this quest, such as investment in technology and the learning of new skills by both staff and patients.

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In this keynote, Dr Nick Watts, the NHS’s first chief sustainability officer, describes the organisation’s net-zero strategy vision, the transformation process, and some of the innovative actions taking place across the system.

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Royal College of Physicians president Andrew Goddard began his EHD 2022 keynote talk with a sombre depiction of the current state of healthcare, which, he said, is currently being visited by the “four horsemen of the apocalypse” – conquest, war, pestilence, and death.

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The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, which together with eight existing schemes will mean 48 hospitals delivered by the end of the decade – the biggest hospital building programme in a generation.

Patient experience

In a moving and inspirational keynote on day two of the 2023 Congress, which took a slight detour from its plenary theme of ‘strengthening health system resilience’ to throw the reliance spotlight on the individual, traumatic brain injury survivor Ben Clench shared his insights on the importance of engaging with patients and harnessing the local voice and action when designing and delivering hospitals, health facilities and services.

Awards

With the climate crisis and sustainable healthcare design a strong theme of this year’s Congress, it was fitting that the European Healthcare Design Awards 2023, organised by Architects for Health and SALUS, should bring the event to a close by honouring a true trailblazer of regenerative design – Robin Guenther, a former principal of Perkins&Will and senior advisor to Health Care Without Harm, who sadly passed away last month following a prolonged battle with cancer.

Health, food and place

The relationship between the city and the rural countryside in respect of food and how we eat was the topic served up by the first day’s closing keynote speaker, Carolyn Steel. An architect and author, Steel published her book, Sitopia: How food can save the world, as the UK entered its first lockdown due to Covid-19 in March 2020.

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Endorsing partners

  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Velindre University NHS Trust
  • AHDC – Australian Health Design Council
  • European Health Property Network
  • The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
  • Sykehusbygg
  • Healthcare Planning Academy
  • Healthcare Design Leadership
Sponsors and exhibitors

  • Integrated Health Projects (IHP)
  • AECOM
  • Inpro Europe
  • Vanguard Healthcare Solutions
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