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European Healthcare Design 2021

Creative destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats

14–17 June 2021

Awards

EHD Awards 2021: Winners revealed

As has become tradition, the European Healthcare Design Congress 2021 was brought to a close with a ceremony to celebrate the winners of the European Healthcare Design Awards 2021, supported by Integrated Health Projects (IHP) and category sponsors Hoare Lea and Medical Architecture.

UK Health Infrastructure

EHD2021: Delivering the New Hospital Programme

Day two of the European Healthcare Design 2021 Congress opened with the hot topic of delivering the UK’s new programme to build 40 new hospitals by 2030.

Opening keynote plenary

EHD2021: “If you can’t adapt you will die – and that’s true for healthcare”

Charles Darwin’s interpreted observation that it’s neither the most intellectual nor the strongest of the species that survives but the species that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself was the final message of Royal College of Physicians’ president Dr Andrew Goddard’s keynote talk during the opening plenary of the 7th European Healthcare Design Congress.

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Promo

EHD 2021 – why attend?

Watch our short video on what delegates at the European Healthcare Design Congress 2021 can expect from this year’s event, which takes place virtually on 14-17 June.

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Planetary health

EHD 2020: Opening plenary: Designing for population and planetary health

The opening plenary of European Healthcare Design 2020 featured three illustrious experts on planetary health, sustainability and climate change.

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Health creation

EHD 2020: The health gap: building a health-creating society

This plenary of keynote talks explored wider issues around health, wellness, life expectancy, health inequalities, and how technology may be deployed to address these problems.

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Climate-smart healthcare

EHD 2020: Driving a greener NHS

Organised by NHS Property Services, this panel discussion highlighted how the NHS is the UK’s largest public-sector emitter of carbon emissions and has a duty to respond to government targets, including being net carbon-zero by 2050.

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Health infrastructure

EHD 2020: Fit for the future? Forty new hospitals

This session included discussion between some of the UK’s leading thinkers and practitioners in healthcare design on the Government’s new Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP).

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Pandemic response

EHD 2020: COVID-19 Global Summit – Systems, science and society

This plenary session featured keynote talks from three global health leaders who, in different capacities, have been involved in the pandemic response.

Quality improvement

How will healthcare design in China be impacted by social and health policies and demographic and population health trends?

Poster pdf

Presenters: Sophie Crocker et al.

Mobile health

The digital divide: examining the use and access to e-health based technologies by millennials and older adults

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Presenters: Delana Theiventhiran et al.

Arts and health

How to please everybody: making art for toddlers and teens across multiple conditions at Evelina London Children’s Hospital

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Presenters: Louisa Williams et al.

Pandemic preparedness

EHD2021: The COVID-19 Global Summit

Day three of the European Healthcare Design 2021 Congress saw the opening keynote plenary of the COVID-19 Global Summit, a ‘conference within a conference’.

Preliminary Programme

EHD 2021: Programme launch webinar – view recording

To mark the launch of this year’s programme, we hosted a free webinar focusing on the plenary theme of this year’s congress: ‘Creative destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats’.

Information for attendees

Delegate information – getting the best Congress experience

Here, we describe how to get the most from your Congress experience and share some tips on how to engage on the event platform.