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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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A history of art in hospitals

Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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  • Charing Cross Hospital: the Prince of Wales opening some new wards. Wood engraving.
  • Two wards of the New Hospital for Women. From a magazine of 1899.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: long two-storey building, possibly divided into wards. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire: six scenes of nurses, nurse and patient, patients, hospital wards, treatment and physicians. Process print.
  • Hospital of the Knights of Saint John, Rhodes: courtyard with stairway leading to the top wards. Photograph, 1931.
  • The Chandkuri Leper Home and Hospital, Baitalpur, India: two Indian women hold bowls on their heads in front of the hospital wards. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: patients on the balconies of wards 4, 5 and 6. Photograph, 1912.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: patients on the balconies of wards 4, 5 and 6. Photograph, 1912.
  • East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell: a party in one of the wards on New Year's Eve. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • World War I: Trinity College Cambridge, Neville's Court, occupied by wards of the 1st Eastern General Hospital. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1914.
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