The Complete Hospitals Framework • Setting the overall requirements

CREATING COMPLETE HOSPITALS

FROM FACTORIES FOR FIXING TO PLACES FOR HEALING

NEUROSCIENCE IS TEACHING US THAT FULLY FLOURISHING HUMANS NEED: BEAUTY, CONNECTEDNESS, GREENERY AND A SENSE OF PURPOSE JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED CLEAN AIR AND SUFFICIENT FOOD

NON- TECHNICAL SUMMARY

A place for healing or a factory for fixing? 2 The main court at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, (DMRC), Loughborough, completed 2018 1

1. Context

Too much twentieth century science, design, management and medicine treated problems as simplistic time and motion studies, as machines where inputs could be directly related to outputs and where efficiency was about size and avoiding extraneous distractions. Across nearly all spheres of human endeavour bigger was better and the local and the natural, the charming and the idiosyncratic needed to be swept cleanly away in the name of scientific progress. This approach had many strengths: hospitals got cleaner; food got cheaper; lives got longer. But it had weaknesses as well. We failed to understand how complex and interlinked were the ecosystems which keep us alive or indeed the chemical and biological process within our own bodies. We started to build disposably for the short term not enduringly for the long term.

THE COMPLETE HOSPITALS GROUP

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