BedPod unveiled at Design Council ‘Design for Patient Dignity’ exhibition

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Created for the ‘Open Brief’ category of the Design Council’s ‘Design for Patient Dignity Challenge’ and for the Department of Health, the BedPod was unveiled last week.

The aim of the Design Council 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. If you missed the Design Council’s exhibition from 23-25 March 2010 of the resulting designs, here is a collection of images and video of the event and the design process.

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.

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. 

 

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.

For more information, visit www.bed-pod.co.uk