Integrating Care: The Architecture of the Comprehensive Health Centre

ISBN-13: 9780415608589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 210 str.

Justin de Syllas;John Allan;¬Abar

Opis

This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the comprehensive health centre, a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the development of this idea, the failure under the NHS to apply the idea in practice in the second half of the century and the recent emergence, in all four regions of the UK, of comprehensive health centres providing a wide range of health and social services, often linked to other community facilities. A review of the latest developments in comprehensive health centre design forms the core of the book in the form of detailed case studies of ten exemplary recent projects. Generously illustrated in full colour the case studies include plans, diagrams, photographs and analytical text, providing the reader with detailed information about a range of design approaches. Following devolution, NHS health policies in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have begun to diverge and the role of the comprehensive health centre in the current health service of each country is assessed. Aimed at professionals, healthcare facilities providers and policy makers, the book also considers the opportunities for and obstacles facing the further development of the comprehensive health centre as an integral part of the infrastructure of the NHS in the future."

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. The Health Centre Concept  2. Case Studies in Northern Ireland  Health Policy in Northern Ireland  Portadown Health Centre  Carlisle Wellbeing and Treatment Centre, Belfast  Grove Wellbeing Centre, Belfast  3. Case Studies in England  Health Policy in England  Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health, London  Waldron Health Centre, London  Kentish Town Health Centre, London  South Liverpool NHS Treatment Centre  4. A Case Study in Wales  Health policy in Wales  Port Talbot Primary Care Resource Centre  5. Case Studies in Scotland  Health Policy in Scotland  Renfrew Health and Social Work Centre  Barrhead Health and Care Centre  6. Interpretation  Acronyms  Index

O autorze

Justin De Syllas trained at the AA and the Bartlett Schools of Architecture in London. After working for a number of leading architectural practices and teaching for several years he joined Avanti Architects in 1985, where he was a director for 26 years. He acted as lead consultant for the Barrhead Health and Care Centre in Scotland and was the Avanti director in charge of the development, with Kennedy FitzGerald Architects, of designs for the Grove Health and Wellbeing Centre in Belfast and Portadown Health Centre, both in Northern Ireland. These, alongside seven projects by other architects, are featured as case studies in the book.