Design & Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments – Survey

I am at the University of Cambridge and part of an EPSRC-funded research team.

Hospitals must be able to withstand the impacts from disruptive events in order to maintain continual service. These challenges include disruptive weather events from a changing climate. Therefore, it is essential that hospitals increase their resilience to climate change.

The Design and Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments (De²RHECC) research project is an EPSRC-funded collaborative project involving four universities and four NHS Hospital Trusts.  This project investigates economic and practical strategies for the NHS infrastructure to increase its resilience to climate change whilst continuing to meet its service goals and energy performance requirements.

We are currently conducting a survey to establish a baseline definition of ‘resilience’ in healthcare.  We would be very grateful if interested parties could complete the questionnaire and thereby provide input on how to best define a ‘resilient’ hospital in a changing climate.

You can find the survey here: 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z53F6KT

If you would like to know more about our project, please see our website at:    http://www.robusthospitals.org.uk/.  For any specific enquiries please email: hospitals@aha.cam.ac.uk.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Kind regards,

Mary Lou

Mary Lou Masko
De2RHECC Project
University of Cambridge