Last month, we launched our four development sites. We are very proud to be partnering
organisations already committed to the vision of the future hospital and seeking innovative …

Welcome to the October edition of FHJ of 2018. Since I last wrote we have seen a change in
leadership, both at the RCP and in the cabinet. Our new secretary of state is clearly a man …

In this issue, we focus on the infrastructure workstream of the Future Hospital project, and
notable figures provide their perspective on the built environment and specific elements of …

ABSTRACT The Future Hospital Commission represents a bold and imaginative exploration
of some new ways of providing medicine more effectively. It is however, the beginning of a …

EDITORIAL facilities, intensive care, mental health and palliative care services and with
clinical responsibility extending outwards to community-based systems including virtual …

Background In September 2014, the Future Hospital Programme (FHP) selected four
development sites–clinical teams each committed to implementing an innovative project …

There is an increasing realisation that new care models will be required to deliver
healthcare to an increasingly elderly and complex patient population. District general …

EDITORIAL centuries, may reflect the much more rapid recent evolution of clinical medicine,
rather than deficiencies of architecture or building. The more intense pace of life (no farms …

manuscripts, kindly contributed by a breadth of accomplished authors, provide comforting
evidence that sensible people not only recognise and understand the salient challenges that …

Background The 2021 Wolfson Economics Prize asked how new hospitals should be
designed to radically improve patient experiences, clinical outcomes, staff wellbeing and …