What does it take to create truly future-ready pediatric hospitals? This session explores two ambitious healthcare initiatives – a Canadian provinces-led international review of pediatric facility standards and the UK’s New Hospital Program (NHP), the UK’s largest hospital-building initiative in a generation.
In Canada, a comprehensive review of international pediatric guidance and benchmarking of world-leading hospitals revealed critical gaps in provincial standards. By analysing global best practice and engaging with clinicians, operators, and designers, the team identified key strategies to improve consistency, adaptability, and family-centred care. These findings are shaping recommendations to future proof pediatric hospitals across Canada – and potentially beyond.
Meanwhile, the NHP showcases how sustained collaboration accelerates innovation. Through co-design frameworks and global stakeholder engagement, families, clinicians, and architects have worked together to reimagine care environments. A Neonatal Care case study illustrates how this approach improves outcomes, patient experience, and operational efficiency.
Delegates will gain actionable insights on embedding user engagement, translating international best practice to local contexts, and designing adaptable, compassionate, and evidence-based pediatric facilities. At its heart, this session is a call to collaborate, innovate, and design with children and families at the centre.
- Date:November 27, 2025
- Time:11:00 am
- Event:Improving Child and Youth Care & Navigating Capital Costs
