A scheme designed to support National Health Service staff to improve the environment in which patients are treated, is being extended. Under the ‘Enhancing the Healing Environment’ programme, staff at London hospitals have been able to give parts of their hospitals a makeover. Now other areas of the country are to benefit.Under the scheme, nurses and other staff have been able to take advantage of a grant from the King’s Fund to use colour, light and design to brighten up their surroundings and help ditch the dreary image of grey hospital corridors. Projects range from transforming waiting rooms through to commissioning new pieces of art and sculpture.
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