Hospital design 'failing patients'
Hospital design 'failing patients'
- 2001
- Financial Times 12 June 2001, 8(1) .
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment criticises hospitals being built under PFI for failing to incorporate the latest design ideas. CABE comments that the PFI approach encourages construction companies to design in cost-saving features to reduce running costs but offers no incentive to use design to improve the lot of patients and to make more attractive buildings.
PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE
HOSPITALS
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment criticises hospitals being built under PFI for failing to incorporate the latest design ideas. CABE comments that the PFI approach encourages construction companies to design in cost-saving features to reduce running costs but offers no incentive to use design to improve the lot of patients and to make more attractive buildings.
PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE
HOSPITALS
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-CONSTRUCTION DESIGN