HOSPITAL PLANNING as the subject of a presidential address is presently not such an exotic topic as it might have been prior to the publication in 1962 of the Government's ten-year plan for hospital expansion. To-day, consequent on the appearance of the Ministry's voluminous notes on hospital building and equipment, much of the sense of adventure is missing. No longer should plans be shaped by ...

B@1975 Denmark should have 9 new mental hospitals, each, with one exception, closely linked to a general hospital. This is the most striking of the proposals contained in the Report* @f a Commission set up by the Danish Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1952. This Commission was to “¿ report n trends of develop ment of the State Mental Hospital Service in respect of organization and buildings, ...

"I AM living in an ideal world of lifts, gas, baths, and double and single wards," wrote Miss Florence Nightingale (Woodham-Smith, 1949) just over one hundred years ago. She was then 33 years of age and was to live to 90 years, and she had already made her impact on hospital design and had done battle with architects and engineers. Her influence is still to be seen in our hospital buildings tod...

OBJECTIVES For planning hospital information systems it is important to recognize the interrelation between business processes and the communication needs between supporting application systems. We therefore present an approach to model, visualize and analyze those interdependencies. METHODS The approach is based on the concepts defined in 3LGM2, a meta-model to describe health information sy...

This paper reports from an ethnographic study of hospital planning in England undertaken between 2006 and 2009. We explored how a policy to centralise hospital services was espoused in national policy documents, how this shifted over time and how it was translated in practice. We found that policy texts defined hospital planning as a clinical issue and framed decisions to close hospitals or hos...

The relationship between the size of a hospital, as measured by its average daily census, and the percentage occupancy of its beds has fascinated students in hospital planning and administration for many years. A further extension of this relationship to include the cost of operating that bed reveals the importance of this inter-connection. If, indeed, the factor of the size in small hospitals ...