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Hospital redevelopment in Manchester will create an age-friendly wellness environment and target inequalities
by Kath Hudson | 26 Aug 2025
A hospital redevelopment in the UK is set to create an age-friendly wellness neighbourhood designed to support people as they get older and serve as a benchmark in the UK. As well as setting out to deliver excellent healthcare, the new North Manchester General Hospital scheme intends to tackle health inequalities, drive regeneration of the area and support the population as they age. Local housing will be developed with technology,
Back in time – visitors experience 1960s healthcare in Black Country Museum's new living history centre
by Tom Walker | 01 Nov 2023
Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, UK, has opened a life-sized replica of a healthcare centre for infants, offering visitors an opportunity to discover how new and expectant mothers in the early 1960s were cared for and supported. The new Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre is housed in its own building, allowing visitors to explore a waiting room, doctor’s surgery, a dispensary and other exhibits – as well as meet
Shortlisted landscape designs announced for UK's first Garden City of the 21st Century
by Megan Whitby | 03 Jul 2018
An international design competition to determine who will design the first Garden City of the 21st century has been whittled down to five, with Ebbsfleet to become the largest of 10 "Healthy New Towns" being developed in the UK. The competition was launched by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and the NHS in March to find the best creative and inspiring ideas, which will be used to shape the landscape of
International competition launched for UK’s first Garden City of the 21st Century
by Kim Megson | 14 Mar 2018
Architects, urban planners and landscape designers have been invited to submit proposals for the UK’s first Garden City of the 21st Century: a “truly modern and healthy” community of 15,000 new homes, seven parks, numerous leisure amenities and 30,000 new jobs. Ebbsfleet in Kent will be the site of the Garden City, which is the largest project of the 10 Healthy New Town initiative launched by the National Health Service
Hull scheme receives NHS approval
by Pete Hayman | 16 Feb 2009
Health managers at NHS Hull have approved multi-million pound proposals for the development of a combined sports and healthy lifestyle complex, which will also incorporate training facilities for Hull Football Club (HFC). The board of NHS Hull has agreed to invest £1m in the scheme, which will create a hub for the organisation to offer a number of public health programmes for the local community, as well as bringing the
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