A three-day cross-disciplinary course aimed at clinicians, designers, project and facility managers, planners, architects, and engineers, ‘with an interest in the latest concepts and ideas that will contribute to the design of an emergency department that meets contemporary and future needs’, will take place at Downing College Cambridge from 7-9 July.
Organised by Dr Sue Robinson, consultant in Emergency Medicine, and deputy medical Director at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, who has a particular interest in emergency department design, the course will “introduce the idea of how the design of an emergency department can facilitate clinical processes, and support the delivery of key national quality standards, as well as how the deficiencies in the design of current ‘EDs’ impedes effective patient management”.
The organisers add: “With speakers from as far afield as the US, and professions such as architecture, planning, and indeed emergency medicine, represented, this course promises to be exciting and original, offering an unrivalled opportunity to contribute to the way forward in 21st century emergency department design. Places are limited and can be booked online at www.cam-pgmc.ac.uk/courses/design-the-smartest-ed-residential-course, with both residential and non-residential options available.
