How single-person rooms are shaping hospital layouts

摘要

Hospitals today seem to have returned to a Victorian model - not, of course, in their healthcare (although you might think so from all the NHS-in-crisis stories)-but in their architectural layouts: long, skinny blocks, pulled out into loops and chains: more reminiscent of the 1860s blocks of St Thomas' Hospital strung along the Thames, rather than its 1960s YRM-designed stacked mega-block extensions.