Hospital wards get a makeover to reduce spread of superbugs
Furniture and fittings including chairs, curtains, bedside cabinets and commodes have been redesigned to eliminate any nooks and crannies where bacteria can lurkIt could be the greatest hospital makeover since Florence Nightingale lit an oil lamp and set off on her first ward round.British designers have come together to give the grim and functional hospital ward a much-needed revamp, and in doing so, they have thrown out the clunky old bedside cabinets, the tired mattresses and dubious-looking commodes and replaced them with more futuristic versions.The makeover has been prompted not by aesthetic shame, but by medical prudence. The NHS sees the redesign as a way of slashing levels of lethal superbugs in hospital wards.The results are the culmination of months of work by more than 70 designers at the Design Council, who teamed up with manufacturers to develop new furniture and fittings that are less likely to harbour bugs such...
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