Future hospitals must be able to adapt in many ways to the changing demands on their roles and functions within evolving healthcare delivery infrastructures. These include changing population structures and needs, new models of healthcare provision, technological advances, and innovations in design, all while enhancing their environmental sustainability.
This article sets out the issues that those determining healthcare policy and designing future hospitals must consider if they are to become and remain fit for purpose within the wider health and social care system. It also examines the need for, and challenges to, strategic healthcare planning, creating future hospitals that are sustainable, net‐zero carbon organisations, and ensuring resilience in the face of a range of potential shocks.
- Future hospitals play a crucial role in healthcare worldwide, regardless of the country's income level.
- Hospitals cannot be viewed without broader health system changes, infrastructure, community and cultural factors, staffing and other considerations.
- Future hospitals will enhance population health in all settings and support the move towards more consumer‐centric healthcare.
- Future healthcare organisations must not only promote health and well-being but also protect their communities through thoughtful building and organisational design
- Planning the hospital system of the future must take a systems approach, making use of the increasingly sophisticated models of healthcare demand, while incorporating sufficient flexibility for a range of possible, but unpredictable scenarios.
- Future hospital function requires sufficient trained healthcare staff, digital literacy for both staff and patients, and adequate education and training
Photo Jordi Soldevila. Homenatge a Toni Catany Bol Japonès
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