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This is the home page for healthcare premises guidance published in England by the Department of Health (DH). Here you will find guidance that applies to NHS facilities, and to facilities providing NHS care, in England.
All Department of Health English guidance will feature the Department of Health logo at the top right-hand side of the web page.
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Guidance on the planning and design of facilities for the delivery of specific clinical services. This guidance was formerly published in Health Building Notes.
Healthcare environment in England
This section includes overarching design and engineering principles applicable to all health and community care buildings. It also contains detailed guidance on specific engineering services (formerly published as Health Technical Memoranda).
Guidance on spaces in healthcare premises, including generic spaces such as clinical and clinical support, clinical administration, and sanitary spaces. This section also contains example Schedules of Accommodation.
This section contains all healthcare premises guidance previously published by the UK Health Organisations, including series such as the Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memoranda, Firecode, Building Components and Health Facilities Notes.
Please note that many of these publications have been archived. You can access current guidance via the Clinical services, Healthcare environment and Spaces sections on Space for Health.
