Project News
The target date for the revised 12 Health Facilities Guidelines to be posed
on the website
www.healthdesign.com.au/nsw.hfg is February 2006.
The next suite of the NSW Health Facility Guidelines have
been extensively reviewed by the industry and comprise of 12 guidelines including:
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Unit
- Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC)
- Adult Mental Health Acute Inpatient Unit
- Ambulatory Mental Health Unit
- Rehabilitation / Allied Health Unit
- Clinical Information Unit
- Medical Imaging Unit
- Maternity Unit
- Neonatal ICU / Special Care Nursery
- Paediatric/Adolescent Inpatient Unit
- Pharmacy Unit
- Renal Dialysis Unit
NSW Health and CHAA both extend their thanks to all those who responded with
comments, proposed amendments and messages of support.
Please note
that this is not the last chance to comment on the guidelines as comments may be
forwarded at any time via the Comments Template under “Contacts” which is on the
web site navigation bar.
From
December 2005 there will be total number of 18 HPUs and 125 Standard Components on
the NSW Health Facility Guidelines (HFG) website.
In the
immediate future, the next task of the NSW HFG development team is to expand the
number of available NSW HFG Standard Components including associated Room Data
and Room Layout Sheets. The revised NSW Health Facility Guidelines will be
used by CHAA to launch the Australasian HFGs in March 2006.
COMING UP!
The team is now working on the
text for the following Health Planning Units (HPU), and additional Standard
Components not covered in the current set of guidelines, for issue in 2006.
Additional units may be added to this list following development of the workplan
for both the NSW and Australasian HFG projects early in 2006.
- Oral Health unit
- Pathology Unit
- Ambulance Station Unit
- Rural Health Unit
- Nuclear Medicine Unit
- Sterilising Unit
The team is also working on a
nationally focused engineering services guideline (Part E of these guidelines)
which will incorporate parts of various existing guidelines including the
current Victorian guidelines Part E, the NSW TS 11 Engineering Services
guideline and the new Western Australian Engineering Services guidelines. This
like many of the next round of guideline components units will be developed
using a nationally focused process, and will then also be incorporated into the
Australasian HFG which will be available eventually via a separate (linked)
website.
Please continue to check this
website for advice regarding release dates for the next version of the NSW HFG
and for the first release of the Australasian HFG in 2006.
CALL FOR REVIEWERS!
We shall be
issuing a draft version of the next set of HPUs (listed above) for review by
selected external industry reviewers prior to posting on the website in
2006. If you feel you able to contribute to this process please contact
chaa.admin@unsw.edu.au,
advising us which HPU(s) you
would like to review. We will then add you to our list of reviewers and
contact you when the documents are ready for review.
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