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Design & Health Australasia 2010 Programme

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Day 1 Programme
08.00 Registration and coffee



08.50 Opening remarks from the chair, Prof Ian Forbes




Session 1: Health Policy and Infrastructure Development in Australasia


09.00 Patient View of Healthcare in 2040: The relationship between empowerment, technology and wellness

  • The changing role of patients, clinicians  and hospitals
  • The patient's role in managing/coordinating their own health care
  • The role of clinicians in minimising patient risk
  • Interventional high technology in a wellness paradigm
  • The exponential growth of community based centres

Dr Liz Gale, health and business consultant

09.30 Infrastructure Delivery in New South Wales
  • The health task in NSW
  • The structure of HI and relationship to NSW Health and the Area Health Services
  • The Planning and Procurement methodology for health infrastructure, including PPP’s
  • Current Initiatives

Robert Rust, Health Infrastructure, New South Wales Health

10.00 Health Design and Infrastructure Development in Australia and New Zealand

Prof Ian Forbes, Design Inc and Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney

10.30 Questions and Answers

10.45 Coffee and exhibition

Session 2: Health Perspectives, Theories and Application

11.15 Salutogenic Perspectives on Health, Wellbeing and Quality of Life
Prof Alan Dilani, International Academy for Design & Health, Sweden

11.45 Design as a tool for social innovation and change

Dr Ray Pentecost, USA


12.15
Evidence-based design – Is there more than meets the eye?

  • The impact of research on the physical environment to support safe and sustainable patient care
  • Physical design features the reduce harm and increase sustainability
  • Developing a business case to support environmental design decisions
  • Vision Zero: Why system designers are responsible for safety levels within the entire health system
  • Incorporating evidence-based design principles into your health facility

Prof Paul Barach, Australia

12.45 Questions and Answers


13.00 Lunch and exhibition



Opening remarks from the Chair, Mike Nightingale, UK




Session 3: Health Planning and Models of Care


14.00 New workplaces for patient-centred models of care

  • The behavioural and cultural changes implied by a patient centred model of care
  • Gathering data on existing work patterns within the health care sector
  • Conceptual framework for thinking about the workplace and its role in health care
  • Using design to break down silos and increase collaboration within health care facilities
  • Supporting life long learning by creating communities of practices through collaboration hubs

Dr John Holm, DEGW, Australia

14.30 Holistic approaches to Emergency Department Planning and Design

  • Applying a 'whole of building' design approach
  • Establishing benchmark and guideline application
  • Understanding the impact of demographics on design
  • Embedding operational flexibility and future proofing
  • Workplace design principles

Sheree Proposch, director, Bates Smart, Australia

15.00 Pro-Con Debate: Single versus Multi-bed Patient Accommodation
 
15.20 Coffee and exhibition

Session 4: Design and Architecture for Health

15.50 International perspectives on 21st century hospital design

  • Understanding the modern hospital as a typology
  • What is the hospital for?
  • Does size matter?
  • Flexibility and future proofing
  • Is form and function aligned or is there more to it

Mungo Smith, MAAP

16.20 Future flexibility in healthcare design

  • How to achieve real flexibility
  • What is the cost of creating flexibility
  • What is the likely cost of long term flexibility
  • Would it be better to build 'temporary' buildings

David Gilbert, principal, Woodhead

16.50 An Architectural Evolution towards healthcare in 2050

Gunther de Graeve, Woods Bagot

17.20 Questions and Answers


17.30 Day Summary and Event Close


19.30 Gala Dinner



Day 2 Programme



Chair Dr Liz Gale, business and health consultant




Session 5  Sustainability, climate change and global health


09.00 Sustainable Healthcare Trends: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Patients
  • Overview of Key drivers for sustainable hospitals
  • International trends and changes in healthcare
  • The Australasian context
  • Low Carbon technology review including passive design opportunities, trigeneration and solar cooling

Haico Schepers, Arup, Australia

09.30 Responsive Design: Case study of a small community hospital in Snowdonia, North Wales

  • The challenge of designing a small community hospital to serve a large and dispersed population
  • Showing sensitivity to existing biodiversity and archaeology
  • The impact of the natural landscape on the plan, section and materiality of the hospital
  • Use of local materials, traditional building techniques and new technologies
  • Making the connection between patient wellbeing and an environmentally responsible design

Kieren Morgan, Nightingale Associates, UK

10.00 Integrating sustainable design, EBD and workplace design

  • Staff retention and sustainability: Applying the lessons of workplace design in healthcare settings
  • International perspectives on staff retention in the design of healthcare facilities
  • Evidenced Based Design: Creating sustainable healing environments through landscape architecture
  • Getting beyond ‘Eco-Bling’: What are the future challenges for sustainability?
  • Economic and social sustainability: Beyond the budget and the treatment process?

Brett Pollard and Wade Sutton, Hassells, Australia

10.30 Questions and Answers


10.45 Coffee and exhibition

Session 6 Productive Built and Technical Environments
11.15 The Business Case for Optimal Physical Environments

  • Ten key steps to implementing Evidence-based Design
  • The new reality: transparency around patient and workforce issues
  • Applying a productivity framework to estimate the impact of any evidence-based design innovation
  • Priority design recommendations to implement at any time and during construction/renovation
  • Develop a physical design improvement plan that will help to: reduce harm to patients, improve the work environment and lower operating costs

Blair Sadler, USA

11:45 The Integrated Interventional Platform: Design for the convergence of surgery, radiology & cardiology

  • Evolving design concepts
  • Day-lighting and wayfinding
  • Workflow and operational considerations
  • Future-proofing and life-cycle flexibility
  • Collaborative versus competitive turf issues

Bill Rostenberg, Anshen + Allen, USA

12.15 The Future Operating Theatre

  • Focusing on patients and care providers in the operating room
  • Incorporating today's technology for better patient outcomes
  • Minimizing patient pain and scarring, improving accuracy and shortening hospital stays
  • Integrating technology to provide total control and customization in the OR
  • Evolving health care to become patient centric, not provider centric
  • Providing critical information quickly and accurately
  • Enabling students to learn through real time communication with surgeons

Simon Donohoe, Olympus

12.45 Questions and Answers


13.00 Lunch and exhibition


Session 7 Patient-specific healing design

14:00 Care Environments for the Older Citizen

  • We shape our buildings therefore they shape us': designing therapeutic and prosthetic environments
  • Beyond the bricks and mortar: building with philosophy and a model of care
  • The challenge of designing 'home' - and what about those Regulations? what about Risk?

Dr Stephen Judd, CEO, Hammond Care, Australia

14.30 Designing environments for adolescents and young people

  • The role of environmental design in meeting the specific needs of young people
  • The role of participatory research and the implications for healthcare design
  • The centrality of social interaction and the role of design as a facilitator or inhibitor
  • The concepts of environmental control, privacy, personal space and territoriality
  • Issues of co-location, adolescent wards and single verses multiple occupancy wards

Dr Kate Bishop, researcher and design consultant, Australia

15.00 Planning Clinical Strategies and Infrastructure Specifications in Mental Health

  • Interpreting stakeholder needs, inputs and group dynamics
  • Recognising leadership potentials and distinguishing power, authority and responsibility within design forums
  • Patient pathways and empathising with patients
  • Balancing infrastructure choices, recurrent funding and models of care
  • Use of value management techniques and the role of economic analyses

Kerry Ross, project director, Savills Project Management

15.30 Questions and Answers

15.45 Coffee and Exhibition

Session 8 Design Quality Standards:  Research Methodologies

16.00 Neuroscience & architecture: Integrating Clinical & Scientific Research in a Rapid-Track Design Process

  • Learn how to conduct 'rapid-track' research studies
  • Integrating research in the architectural process and time line
  • Translating the wealth of evidence available into design drivers
  • Exploring case studies that demonstrate the value added from 'rapid track' research studies
  • The impact of master plan, program and design on patterns of light and darkness

Dr Eve Edelstein, Innovative Design Science, USA

16.30 Pro-Con Debate: The Principles and Practice of Research-based Design versus Evidence-based Design

17.00
Day Summary




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