privacy in the blink of an eye

The Northern General Hospital is part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and has recently opened a new state-of-the-art critical care unit.

The trust wanted this new facility to look to the future, needing a resilient design for the planned life of the building (60 years). It was important that the development enabled new technologies to be adopted easily, and that it was flexible enough to respond to future changes in service configuration.

Included within the design of the private treatment rooms was the installation of Blink® LCD switchable glass windows that provide on-demand patient-privacy by turning from clear to opaque at the flick of a switch.