Capital health : London's new health care estate / [NHS Capital Investment Unit for the London Strategic Health Authorities].
- National health services - Great Britain
- Date:
- 2005
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Capital health : London's new health care estate / [NHS Capital Investment Unit for the London Strategic Health Authorities]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| Enoc h Powell launches the = Hospital Plan, a massive : hospital building programme for 99 new and 134 upgrade hospitals at a cost of £500M over the decade. | Based on a 600-800 bed District General Hospital costs ‘ cut back. | 1966 | horizontal planning was the Wexham Park Hospital in | Slough by architects Powell & Moya. It accommodated : 300 beds along a central spine with single storey wards late gardens serviced from it. The eleRomeMel cell eitels alalicerelU(ercre Nets basis for the Northwick Park Hospital | 1970 in Harrow designed by Llewelyn-Davies Weeks. ! Described by as “indeterminate architecture” by the 3 buildings of any shape were added. | 1969. | Greenwich District seat - The DHSS mong. | Architects was the first low rise hospital to be introduced | into a built up area. A rectangular block with central | it offered internal flexibility known as “universal space”. 2 With its standardised departments the 800 bed. wich (Research Design & Guidance into Traffic _ Tee larersm ce) subsequent DHSS known a as Best By and Harness. Nats Hospitals - A highly prescribed siannind and the Nucleus package offered the Client a route to assured their rigid conditions Nucleus achieved many competent designs as at Newham (1983)but few like the Maidstone ~ District General eset] by Powell & Moya were ee inspirational. | 1983 ao ee Mental Health Act. - The most drimatic ce in concept of supervised treatment in the community and -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32222841_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
