European Healthcare Design 2021

To mark the launch of this year’s programme, we are hosting a free webinar later this month, which will focus on the plenary theme of this year’s congress: ‘Creative destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats’.

The Call for Entries to the European Healthcare Design Awards 2021 is now closed and evaluation is underway.

In a tumultuous year when the resilience of healthcare globally has been tested to the limit by the pandemic, the pressure to adopt a climate-smart development path for designing, building, operating and investing in health systems and infrastructure has also increased exponentially.

The 6th European Healthcare Design Congress – the first-ever delivered virtually, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and necessary restrictions on social gatherings – kicked off with a hard-hitting opening plenary looking at designing for population and planetary health within the context of climate change and COVID-19.