This year the EuHPN workshop will look at three key factors which contribute to better healthcare built environments: leadership, learning and integrated project delivery. 

This year’s EuHPN workshop is taking place in Basel, Switzerland, from 18 to 20 September.  Our theme is Getting It Right First Time, For Patients.

EuHPN's 2018 workshop took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, with generous support from our member organisations White Arkitekter and Chalmer's University of Technology's Centre for Healthcare Architecture. 

Many European countries face similar dilemmas: what to do with smaller hospitals providing acute medical services, particularly those which are geographically remote or otherwise less accessible. 

This year we have an amazing range of countries represented from across Europe and a wonderfully diverse group of speakers, both academics and practitioners with interests in planning, designing, constructing and financing all kinds of healthcare infrastructure. 

‘Building for better health, research & innovation in architecture & urban design for care & health’ is the title of ARCH19 – the 4th Architecture Research Care & Health conference – organised at the NTNU Knowledge Centre of the St Olav Hospital in Trondheim – Norway –   12th until 14th of June 2019.

This year’s themes are the contribution of research and evaluation to developing the future infrastructure of healthcare, and increasing importance of health and care buildings in community settings. 

This year the EuHPN workshop looks at infrastructure development outside the field of grand hospital developments, by concentrating on community hospitals and smaller-scale mental health units, enhanced primary care centres and specialist health secondary care facilities. 

On 13th and 14th April I had the privilege to attend Erasmus Medical Center’s New Build 2018 congress: a celebration of the planning, design, engineering, construction, thought and sheer hard work that has led to the rebuilding – and re-imagining – of an entire academic hospital campus.

This year’s EuHPN workshop will be taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 25 to 27 September. We are grateful to the Centre for Healthcare Architecture, Chalmers Technical University for assistance in finding a top quality venue and in developing our workshop theme. 

This congress, taking place 13-14 April in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is organised by Erasmus University Medical Center, EGM Architects, Royal HaskoningDHV, ptg advies and Juurlink [+] Geluk.  It features a range of top quality plenary speakers, panel discussions, workshops and guided tours which will tackle a range of issues: