This page brings together all documents relating to health building notes.

Health building notes give best practice guidance on the design and planning of new healthcare buildings and on the adaptation or extension of existing facilities.

They provide information to support the briefing and design processes for individual projects in the NHS building programme.

The ProCure23 Framework is the recommended procurement method for publicly-funded capital projects over £1 million. The Principal Supply Chain Partners have developed a number of repeatable room arrangements for use in NHS Acute and mental health facilities, all of which are fully compliant with HBNs and Health Technical Memoranda (HTM).

You might also be interested in the HTM document series. Or you may wish to view a complete list of NHS estates related guidance past and present.

Documents

(HBN 00-01) Designing health and community care buildings
3 June 2014: Guidance

(HBN 00-02) Designing sanitary spaces like bathrooms
25 May 2016: Guidance

(HBN 00-03) Designing generic clinical and clinical support spaces
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 00-04) Designing stairways, lifts and corridors in healthcare buildings
16 April 2013: Guidance

(HBN 00-07) Resilience planning for NHS facilities
30 April 2014: Guidance

(HBN 00-08) The efficient management of healthcare estates and facilities
19 March 2015: Guidance

(HBN 00-09) Infection control in the built environment
26 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 00-10) Design for flooring, walls, ceilings, sanitary ware and windows
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 01-01) Designing and planning cardiac facilities
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 02-01) Cancer treatment facilities: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 03-01) Adult mental health units: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 03-02) Facilities for child and adolescent mental health services
30 June 2017: Guidance

(HBN 04-01) Adult in-patient facilities: planning and design
1 December 2009: Guidance

(HBN 04-02) Critical care units: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 6) Designing facilities for diagnostic imaging
1 January 2001: Guidance

(HBN 07-01) Satellite dialysis units: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 07-02) Main renal unit: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 08-02) Dementia-friendly health and social care environments
25 March 2015: Guidance

(HBN 09-02) Maternity care facilities: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 09-03) Neonatal units: planning and design
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 10-02) Facilities for day surgery units
1 May 2007: Guidance

(HBN 11-01) Facilities for primary and community care services
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 12) Designing an out-patients department
1 January 2004: Guidance

(HBN 13) Planning and design of sterile services departments
2 January 2004: Guidance

(HBN 14-01) Designing pharmacy and radiopharmacy facilities
20 March 2013: Guidance

(HBN 14-02) Medicines storage in clinical areas
28 May 2021: Guidance

(HBN 15) Planning and designing facilities for pathology services
28 April 2005: Guidance

(HBN 15-01) Planning and designing accident and emergency departments
11 June 2013: Guidance

(HBN 15-02) Facilities for same day emergency care/ambulatory emergency care
28 May 2021: Guidance

(HBN 23) Designing hospital accommodation for children
1 January 2004: Guidance

(HBN 26) Facilities for surgical procedures in acute general hospitals
2 January 2004: Guidance