Evaluating a major innovation in hospital design: workforce implications and impact on patient and staff experiences of all single room hospital accommodation
Maben J, Griffiths P, Penfold C, Simon M, Pizzo E, Anderson J, Robert G, Hughes J, Murrells T, Brearley S, Barlow J
Record ID 32015000317
English
Authors' objectives:
To explore the impact of the move to a newly built acute hospital with all single rooms on care delivery, working practices, staff and patient experience, safety outcomes and costs.
Authors' recommendations:
The nature of tasks undertaken by nurses did not change, but staff needed to adapt their working practices significantly and felt ill prepared for the new ways of working, with potentially significant implications for the nature of teamwork in the longer term. Staff preference remained for a mix of single rooms and bays. Patients preferred single rooms. There was no strong evidence that single rooms had any impact on patient safety but housekeeping and cleaning costs are higher. In terms of future work, patient experience and preferences in hospitals with different proportions of single rooms/designs need to be explored with a larger patient sample. The long-term impact of single room working on the nature of teamwork and informal learning and on clinical/care outcomes should also be explored.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2015
URL for published report:
http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr03030/#/abstract
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Interior Design and Furnishings
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Patient Satisfaction
- Patients' Rooms
- Hospital Design and Construction
- Patient Preference
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO
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