CHALLENGE
Users want various health-related treatments gathered in one centre. How can a design-related perspective contribute to ensuring the best physical surroundings possible for the future health treatment centres in Region North Jutland?

FINDINGS
Collaboration in shared physical surroundings is crucial to the way we act in practice, strengthening cooperation.

To reorganise the primary health sector as a single entity would create new solutions that focus on the public, secure coherent patient treatment, offer possibilities to accommodate different needs when assessing a citizen, etc.

Design can add a new language to the public sector and provide an opportunity to put what we know in a new light, transform reports into visual expressions, and thus lead to new solutions.

SOLUTION
Creating a treatment centre is a complex process that involves many different parties with various professional, economic and human aspects. The guideline catalogue is a systematic process that ensures that visions and organisations are properly rooted in the physical surroundings and facilities. The design-related perspective thus helps ensure that the future health service improves and broadens, that the aggregate resources are used in the best way possible, and that general practice is turned into a useful and attractive place of work with increased productivity without loss of care and nearness. 

Design Smedegaard & Weis ApS
Participants Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority, The North Denmark Region, Mette Milling Indretning, Architecture & Design, AAU