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Top British designers and architects are working with the NHS to improve the experience of patients in hospital. 

Mat Hunter, former Partner of international design consultancy IDEO, has been appointed as Chief Design Officer for the Design Council, one of the most influential design positions in the UK.

Leading designer David Worthington, Chair of the Design Skills Alliance, has appealed to designers to take urgent action to sort out their professional skills as new figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that only 8.9 per cent had received job-related training, compared to 15.7 per cent of architects and 16.2 per cent of civil engineers.1.

UK’s longest-running annual design prize to mark its golden jubilee with a celebration of British design genius at Buckingham Palace.

The Design Council has launched the search for a new Chief Design Officer to head up its design strategy, direction and partnerships.  The role will be the design lead across the broad range of demonstration and coaching projects in areas such as health, crime, public services and business

Small businesses up and down the country will be offered the chance to learn the secrets of using design to be more innovative and competitive, through a network of Business Growth Clubs launched today as a joint venture between the Design Council and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

The Design Council has launched a national design challenge called ‘Design for Patient Dignity’, inviting designers to join forces with manufacturers, service providers and specialist contractors to help eliminate mixed sex accommodation and increase patient privacy and dignity in hospitals.

A safer British pint glass is being developed by designers in a bid to crack the problem of glasses being used in violent assaults. On behalf of the Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime, the Design Council has appointed a team of specialist designers to create a new kind of glass to reduce the number of injuries from the 87,000 violent incidents involving glassware each year, which costs an estimated £100 million in NHS, police and court costs annually.

UK’s longest-running annual design prize to mark its golden jubilee with a celebration of British design genius at Buckingham Palace

Andrea Siodmok has been appointed by Cornwall Council to be Programme Director of Dott Cornwall.

The Design Council and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) have announced a new partnership that will see the two organisations working together to promote the value of design to UK businesses.

Some of the UK’s top designers and technology experts have been announced as winners in the £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge, a national competition to create ‘crime proof’ mobiles

A wearable radar-on-a-chip tracking device with many safety applications, solar-powered equipment to generate clean water and electricity, and a self-sterilising catheter are among a raft of innovations expected to emerge from a new initiative using designers to help speed up the commercialisation of new technologies from some of the UK’s leading universities.

Prototypes of innovative new designs for existing hospital furniture and equipment, aimed at helping the fight against MRSA and other Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs), will be unveiled today by the Design Council

Treasury report highlights role of design in improving public services