Further reading

 PublicationYou can download a PDF copy of the Reducing violence and aggression in A&E publication or contact us at a&e@designcouncil.org.uk to request a printed copy, ask questions or share your thoughts.

Printed publications will be provided free of charge to NHS employees upon request. 

 

 

CABE and PwC (2004), The role of hospital design in the recruitment, retention and performance of NHS nurses in England    

 

Center for Health Design, Ulrich, Roger, Martinez, C.A. et al (2004) The Role of the Physical Environment in the Hospital of the 21st Century: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

 

Department of Health: Darzi, Ara, Lord Darzi of Denham (2008) High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report     Strategic Health Authorities' vision documents  

 

Department of Health (2007) The essence of care: benchmarks for the care environment. 

 

Department of Health (2009) The NHS Constitution: the NHS belongs to us all.   

 

Department of Health Emergency Care: Information toolkit    

 

Department of Health: Intelligent Space Partnership (2002) ISBN : 0113224877 The impact of the built environment on care within A&E departments   

 

Department of Health. NHS Estates, Improving the patient experience: welcoming entrances and reception areas. ISBN : 0113224850    

 

Department of Health. NHS Estates (2004) Modernising A&E environments ISBN: 0113224907 Differential self-awareness theory    

 

Golledge, Reginald (1998) Wayfinding behaviour: Cognitive mapping and other spatial processes

 

Harvard Business Review: Maister, D. (January-February 1983) The Psychology of Waiting Lines, Effective management of security in A&E

 

HD: the journal for healthcare design and development, issue 36: 30-32 (February 2005) The light fantastic     

 

Ipsos MORI (2008)  What matters to staff in the NHS : research study conducted for Department of Health 
Summary

 

The Kings Fund, Waller, Sarah and Finn, Hedley (2004) Enhancing the healing environment: a guide for NHS Trusts ISBN: 1857174895    

 

The King's Fund: Goodrich, Joanna and Cornwell, Jocelyn, (2008) ISBN: 9781857175776 Seeing the person in the patient : the Point of Care review paper

 

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 14 Issue 5 , p21-34, Mark M. Davis, M.D., Heineke, J. (1994) Understanding the Roles of the consumer and the operation for better queue management  

 

McCullough, Cynthia et al.  (2010) ISBN: 9781930538771 International Evidence-based design for healthcare facilities    

 

Moeller, N., Healthcare Design issue5, 29-35 (2005). Sound masking in healthcare environments: Solving noise problems can help promote an environment of healing.     

 

Picker Institute Europe (2009) Using patient feedback : a practical guide to improving patient experience.  Access to the guide by section: http://www.pickereurope.org/usingpatientfeedback   

 

Picker Institute Commonwealth Fund: Shaller, Dale, Camden, ME (2007) Patient centered care : what does it take?

 

The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Guidance for the viewing of the deceased following bereavement    

 

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (2010) Live waiting times

 

Warwick Medical School: Cooke, Matthew, et.al. (2005) Reducing Attendances and Waits in Emergency Departments: A systematic review of present innovations

 

Roberto Verganti

Designs role in innovation

Experts give their thoughts on designs role in innovation, including a case study of how the Aravind Eye Hosital in India used design to innovate

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Future Health

A look at how good design makes healthy places combining sustainable, health-promoting design with the latest thinking about individual health and well-being.

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

How making changes to the signage and wayfinding cut crime and violence levels in the A&E department of one hospital