Hospital ward products designed to reduce medical error went on show at the Royal College of Art this week - News
See also:
- Royal College of Art
- DOME project
- Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality
- Department of Surgery and Cancer
- Imperial College Business School
- Faculty of Medicine
By Sam Wong
Thursday 6 October 2011
Hospital ward products designed to reduce medical error formed part of a free exhibition at the Royal College of Art this week.
The designs are the outcome of the Designing Out Medical Error (DOME) project, a collaboration between clinicians, business experts and designers from Imperial College London, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre.
The project was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
In this video, Oliver Anderson from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial, Grace Davey and Jonathan West from the Helen Hamlyn Centre present three of the designs in the exhibition: a vital signs trolley, a new visual strategy for promoting hand hygiene, and a ‘Carestation’ that provides the equipment needed for patient care. The Carestation is already being trialled on the wards at St Mary's Hospital and the team plans to test and commercialise the whole package in the near future.
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