Health Building Note 00-07: Planning for a resilient healthcare estate

Document first published:: 1 May 2007
Page updated:: 31 January 2024
Topic:: Estates
Publication type:: Guidance

Guidance on increasing the resilience of NHS buildings to threats and hazards, like fire or flood, that could disrupt normal operations.

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Health Building Note 00-07: Planning for a resilient healthcare estate

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Summary

Health Building Note (HBN) 00-07 provides guidance on designing and planning for a resilient healthcare estate.

It aims to help NHS-funded providers to determine appropriate levels of resilience for sites, buildings and installations against a wide range of emergencies, hazards and threats and their impacts and consequences including resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Published 1 May 2007. Last updated 30 April 2014.