An increasing body of research supports the understanding that how we feel about the healthcare spaces in which we are cared for and work has a significant impact on our wellbeing. For patients the quality of the environment can impact on how quickly people recover, it can support healing, help calm, offer distraction, and reduce stress and anxiety at some of the most key moments of people’s lives. For families, and carers, the quality of the environment that their loved ones are being cared for in can sooth and reassure. We recognise the importance of looking after and supporting those that care for us, colleagues wellbeing and staff retention has never been more important and can be enhanced by the environment in which they work, helping to support them in delivering the best possible patient care.
