Healthcare Facility Design

Designing physical spaces and systems to enable safe, efficient, patient-centred care.

Clinically Informed Facility Design

Healthcare Facility Design involves defining physical spaces and systems for safe, efficient, patient-centred care. This design must consider interdependencies among spaces, people, and clinical processes. 

We believe optimal healthcare facilities result from harmonising social and technological elements at the design stage. Partnering with Newpark Healthcare provides the experience and insights needed to develop effective designs that integrate clinical expertise, architecture, digital systems, and medical technology. With extensive experience in healthcare facility design, Newpark Healthcare helps clients create innovative, clinically sound hospitals that align with patient and staff needs.

Why It Matters

Successful healthcare facility outcomes depend on co-design and connections among people, processes, and space, whether constructing a new hospital or making smaller improvements like IT systems or Virtual Wards. 

Engaging multidisciplinary stakeholders and sharing information are crucial; without this, the as-built facility may not be optimal or future-focused, ultimately hindering service delivery. Newpark Healthcare’s trusted approach helps organisations make optimal decisions from the start.

Our Capabilities

Hospital Systems Design

Designing integrated clinical, operational, and digital systems that optimise patient flow, staff efficiency, and care delivery for hospitals and healthcare campuses.

Stakeholder Engagement

Help to articulate and communicate the outcome of facility design exercises with different professional teams, such as building design teams, regulators, and other stakeholders.

Multidisciplinary Planning Facilitation

Facilitation of hospital teams with differing expertise and focus to come together and work aligned around a common hospital facility design purpose.

Accelerating Design Processes

Having completed many hospital facility design projects, we can accelerate the design process by bringing extensive experience to bear.

Discovering Innovation

Integrating new technologies into hospital system design so that the value of innovation can be fully realised through meaningful inclusion in clinical and business systems.

End-to-End Design

By using patient, staff, material and information journey mapping, we work with our clients to deliver a fully integrated end-to-end hospital design.

Our Services

  • Patient-centred design and experience
  • Workflow optimisation 
  • Infection control and zoning strategies
  • Flexible and modular design principles
  • Smart hospital integration (EHR, equipment, digital tools) 

  • Define clinical vision and models of care
  • Preparation of Operational Brief, the roadmap to successful implementation of a hospital development program
  • Set service mix, capacity, and operational requirements
  • Align patient demand with system capacity and long-term strategy

  • Define clinical vision and models of care
  • Preparation of Operational Brief, the roadmap to successful implementation of a hospital development program
  • Set service mix, capacity, and operational requirements
  • Align patient demand with system capacity and long-term strategy

  • Plan and deliver hospitals and healthcare campuses
  • Coordinate infrastructure, clinical requirements, and technology
  • Create integrated environments that support efficient, scalable care

  • Strategic case development
  • Economic and financial analysis
  • Commercial and procurement planning
  • Implementation and management planning
  • Stakeholder engagement and alignment

Challenges We Solve

Misaligned hospital design and workflows

Inefficient capital investment decisions

Lack of integration across systems

Funding approval challenges

Risk of costly redesign and delays

Outcomes We Deliver

1

Stronger early-stage decisions

2

Reduced project risk and rework

3

Optimised capital investment

4

Improved patient and staff experience

5

Future-ready healthcare infrastructure

6

Higher business case approval rates

Relevant Case Studies

Frequently Asked Questions

Effective healthcare facility design helps organisations make stronger early-stage decisions, reduce project risk and rework, optimise capital investment, improve patient and staff experiences, and create future-ready healthcare infrastructure.

Yes. We support healthcare organisations developing new hospitals, campuses, and clinical facilities, as well as those improving existing environments, services, digital systems, and models of care such as Virtual Wards.

We bring together clinical expertise, architecture, digital systems, and medical technology to create facilities that can adapt to evolving healthcare needs. Our approach also incorporates innovation and emerging technologies from the earliest design stages.

Absolutely. We facilitate collaboration between clinical leaders, operational teams, design consultants, regulators, and other stakeholders to ensure all perspectives are considered and aligned throughout the design process.

We are most effective during the earliest planning and concept development stages, where key decisions have the greatest impact. However, we can also provide support throughout design development, business case preparation, and implementation.

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