Industry challenges: Health

A project to seek out opportunities to improve the health and wellbeing of children under five. Forming part of a new partnership programme with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity and the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth.

One in three of us who live to 65 will have some form of dementia before we die. A million people in the UK will be living with the condition by 2021. But there’s a difference between simply living and living well.

The Design Council in partnership with the Department of Health has funded and supported the development of five innovative new design solutions to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia.

Can you develop solutions that reduce the human and financial costs of violence and aggression in hospital Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments?

We know designers have what it takes to reduce the impact of violence and aggression in A&E. Tell us how your team would approach the challenge and you could receive up to £150,000 to develop your ideas.

The Design Council, working in partnership with the Department of Health, commissioned six teams of designers and manufacturers, as well as healthcare design specialists from the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre to develop innovative new designs that show how the hospital experience could be made better, and how different privacy and dignity issues could be solved.

Patients expect hospitals to be clean and safe. Good design can help make that happen by developing furniture and equipment that’s easy to clean and easy to use.

The Design Council, working in partnership with the Department of Health, challenged the UK design industry to develop a range of functional products that make cleaning quicker and easier.

In partnership with NHS London, the Design Council are supporting London’s GPs to generate and implement new ideas for improving the services they offer patients.

RED was set up in 2004 by the Design Council to tackle social and economic issues through design led innovation.

We have archived all the collateral produced by the RED team on its website, where you can find out more about its projects on design and health, design and ageing, design and democray, transformation design and more.

www.designcouncil.info/mt/RED/