00:00 CU’s
children’s paintings
Tilt
up kid’s artwork
Pan
from Kids wall art to Ls down old ward, nurses
Nurse
at Nursing station
Wide
Children's Ward Entrance door
CU
Childrens Ward sign
MS
Play Room sign
Exterior
– University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
sign
Exterior
New hospital, main entrance
Exterior
new hospital building
Exterior
old hospital
Interior
– Pan across entrance roof
CU
ceiling hanging art
Wide,
Jane Coad with girl looking through materials
CU
girl picking up colour chart
CU
girls face
CU
girl pointing at colour chart booklet
MS
Jane Coad and Girl
CU
girl pointing at colour chart booklet
Guide Voice: A smile, a rocket, a
sheep and a teddy.
Children’s and young people’s artwork is used in
many paediatric wards to brighten them up and make them more
familiar to other children. For most patients, and particularly
children, hospitals are about pain, anxiety, and unfamiliarity,
accompanied by feelings of helplessness and lack of control. So why
not ask kids in hospital how they feel, what they want, what would
comfort them? And then incorporated the answers into a specially
designed hospital environment?
That’s what’s happening now in Coventry. The new
‘University Hospital’ managed by University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, is being built on the
Walsgrave hospital site. And already the completed sections have a
user-friendly feel, with good design and light and airy interiors.
And for the first time, children and young people are having their
say in the design of the next phase of construction.
A unique research project developed by the University of
Birmingham’s School of Health Sciences, is studying what
child patients and their parents want in the hospital environment,
and feeding the results back into the design of the new
hospital’s paediatric wards, so other children will be
happier in them. The research has produced some valuable
insights into the wants and needs of both young patients and
parents.
01:17 SOT: Jane Coad, Researcher,
School of Health
Sciences, University
of Birmingham –
"Some of the children said that we should go and lie in
their beds and see how boring the ward is. So those things were
important to them. Also in the waiting areas children were very
clear that they wanted the waiting areas to be much more friendly,
sitting in circles, music mobiles, lots of interesting things
around them."
01:36 Tilt
down textures sheet
CU
Child Themes board
Wide
Child Themes board
CU
porthole image from Child Themes board
CU
fish swimming from Child Themes board
CU
cartoon dolphins from Child Themes board
Graphic
- Child design for children’s ward x2
Guide Voice: In all, sixty children of all ages
and their parents were interviewed about what they would like in
the new unit and given different materials to help stimulate their
responses. Then 250 questionnaires were sent to children, young
people and parents in Coventry and Warwickshire who had used
Walsgrave Hospital facilities. The results have included some
radical ideas and designs, which are now being fed back to the
Hospital’s planning team.
02:00 SOT Liz Thiebe, Director, New Hospital Service
Design - "What’s unique for us about the
children’s research project is that its informing our design
of the space, in such a way that we never did before. We would ask
our children after we’d completed something to react to
it. By doing the research project first we’re able to
us that then to inform the architect, so that the architect is
designing around what the children are asking for and not designing
around what we think the children
need."
02:26 Wide
Jane Coad with 2 girls at outside table
Tilt
up from girls hands to girls faces
Wide
Jane Coad and 2 girls at table
Guide Voice: The children had very clear views
about their environment, requesting good signage, and surroundings
that were appropriate for their age group, they were particularly
aware of design and colour and the need for
entertainment
02:38 SOT:Anna ( age 13)
- "Colourful, loads of games loads of friendly
people places like you can go out
and things like day outings."
02:51 SOT:Aimee (Age 13)
- "Different colours all the way through and lots
of sporty stuff."
02:59SOT: Anna - "Brighten the place
up so its not so dull and miserable."
03:04 SOT: Jane Coad, Researcher,
School of Health
Sciences, University
of Birmingham –
"What surprised us was the strength of their views and
that they had very strong views about services. Particularly we
found out that they had strong ideas about colour; colour was a
unique finding to this study in that previous studies had shown
that bright colours were appropriate and that children liked them.
But our study, that took place in 2004-2005, categorically showed
that children liked much more domestic colours, like creams mid
blues and mid yellows."
03:37 Wide
Colour chart
Tilt
up Bubble tube
Guide Voice: In fact what most children wanted
was an environment very much like home, a healing environment, and
one which was tailored to their own age group, all findings that
have been taken on board by the hospital which will now group
in-patient children by age ranges
03:52 SOT: Nigel Coad, Consultant Paediatrician,
New UniversityHospitals
- "The research is particularly important
because the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has just
brought out a report this month emphasising the need to consult
children in the provision of their services, in every sphere that
children see in hospital life. So it’s of considerable
importance to us, and of course to the children as
well."
04:11 2
boys drawing
Various
designs for new ward by various children x 4
Guide Voice: By incorporating the designs and
wishes of children this project is enabling University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to build a paediatrics
department in the new University Hospital, designed by kids for
kids, which will help reduce the anxiety of around 35,000
children a year who will be treated there.
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