BedPod launched to address
patient dignity
23 March 2010
The BedPod, created by Nightingale Associates, Billings Jackson Design and SAS International, is being shown for the first time at the Design Council today.
Created for the ‘Open Brief’ category of the Design Council’s ‘Design for Patient Dignity Challenge’ and the Department of Health, the BedPod has been launched, addressing the wider issues of patient dignity in the NHS.
The Design Council announced our team as one of six design teams to have won a £25,000 award in January 2010. The aim of the scheme is to improve patient experience in hospital with particular emphasis on the separation of male and female patients through innovative product and service design.
Created by Nightingale Associates, in collaboration with Billings Jackson Design and SAS International, the BedPod is an innovative ‘conversion kit’, providing a fully-integrated bed environment, which offers greater privacy and, ultimately, patient dignity. It provides for the needs of the patient in the 21st-century, improving patient experience and helping to create a healing environment.
Michael Parkinson and Health Minister Ann Keen try out the prototype
The BedPod is a prefabricated, high-quality modular product that can be rapidly installed with minimum disturbance and minimum loss of beds, offering a Trust more control and flexibility to release space within their estate. The product aims to create a sense of patient empowerment, allowing more control over lighting and privacy as well as improving acoustics around the bed. It is a flexible solution that can be utilised as a temporary or permanent measure in hospitals, creating a private space - even within a multi-bed ward environment.
“It’s great to see the BedPod prototype receive so much positive feedback from the Department of Health and press contacts at the Design Council exhibition - even Michael Parkinson and health minister, Ann Keen, were eager to test out its functionality.”
Richard Mazuch, Nightingale Associates, speaking at the
Design Council exhibition
An integrated modesty screen enables patients to choose participation or ‘peace and quiet’. Its distinctive curved form provides acoustic reflection and absorption, which offers the patient an improved acoustic environment in and around the bed. A number of integrated lighting solutions also allow general room lighting to be reduced to promote rest.
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