Primary care: Plowright Medical Centre (health and well-being): case study
Publication Year
2012
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Describes the range of services which are delivered from the new Plowright Medical Centre, and types of spaces needed to deliver these services. This smaller-scale GP practice was aiming to create a welcoming, modern and environmentally sustainable surgery building with light airy spaces which would be accessible to all. The finished centre has become a sustainability exemplar, using just 54 kWh of electricity and 90 kWh of gas per square metre per year, and it scored highly on design quality in CABE’s 2008 survey of completed LIFT buildings.
Document History
Superseded by HBN 11-01: Facilities for primary and community care services. Version:0.4:England. The case studies are the updated equivalent of what was formerly published as Health Building Note 11-01: ‘Facilities for primary and community care services – Case studies’.
Publisher Information
Department of Health
The Department of Health was committed to improving the quality and convenience of care provided by the NHS and social services. Its work included setting national standards, shaping the direction of health and social care services and promoting healthier living. Publications included Space for Health: Technical Manuals, as well as the Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memorandums, and White Papers. They were renamed to the Department of Health and Social Care. However responsibility for technical guidance was then transferred to NHS Improvement in February 2017 which is now part of NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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