Hospitals: Building Regulations
(asked on 6th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that doorways in new hospital buildings are wide enough to allow beds to pass through them.
This question was answered on 24th February 2023
NHS England provides guidance for designing new hospitals. The current guidance is Health Building Note (HBN) 00-04 Circulation and Communication Spaces which sets out the door and corridor width requirements for bed movement.