Health building note 04-01: adult in-patient facilities

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This health building note provides best practice guidance on the planning and design of in-patient facilities for adults.

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Summary

Guidance on planning and designing in-patient facilities for adults, which includes:

  • bedrooms and bathrooms
  • patient support areas
  • storage areas
  • utility areas
  • staff and administration areas

Supplement 1 describes how to provide separate bedrooms and bathrooms to isolate infectious patients.

Published 1 December 2009.

Summary

Guidance for acute settings on the design of special ventilated isolation facilities in which the movement of air within the isolation facility will control the ingress and/or egress of airborne harmful pathogens and contaminants.

Published 1 December 2009 and updated July 2024.

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