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'A health centre should be the hub of a community, linking to everything people need. Here are design ideas for how they should look and feel, to breathe new life into an inspiring vision that began life before the NHS. At a time when 'integration' is what the NHS needs, after the fragmentation and competition of recent years, here are bold and unifying design solutions for the next generation of policy-makers.' - Polly Toynbee, Guardian Columnist 'Impressively clear and well-argued, Integrating Care shows how a genuinely new type of building - long imagined, but with precious few precedents - has emerged in Britain in the last fifteen years out of collaborations between architects, doctors, politicians and medical administrators. Particularly valuable is the insight into the responses to the differing circumstances of the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The buildings described are encouraging evidence for architecture's potential to enhance wellbeing and to shape people's expectations.' - Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

'A health centre should be the hub of a community, linking to everything people need. Here are design ideas for how they should look and feel, to breathe new life into an inspiring vision that began life before the NHS. At a time when 'integration' is what the NHS needs, after the fragmentation and competition of recent years, here are bold and unifying design solutions for the next generation of policy-makers.' - Polly Toynbee, Guardian Columnist 'Impressively clear and well-argued, Integrating Care shows how a genuinely new type of building - long imagined, but with precious few precedents - has emerged in Britain in the last fifteen years out of collaborations between architects, doctors, politicians and medical administrators. Particularly valuable is the insight into the responses to the differing circumstances of the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The buildings described are encouraging evidence for architecture's potential to enhance wellbeing and to shape people's expectations.' - Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

'A health centre should be the hub of a community, linking to everything people need. Here are design ideas for how they should look and feel, to breathe new life into an inspiring vision that began life before the NHS. At a time when 'integration' is what the NHS needs, after the fragmentation and competition of recent years, here are bold and unifying design solutions for the next generation of policy-makers.' - Polly Toynbee, Guardian Columnist 'Impressively clear and well-argued, Integrating Care shows how a genuinely new type of building - long imagined, but with precious few precedents - has emerged in Britain in the last fifteen years out of collaborations between architects, doctors, politicians and medical administrators. Particularly valuable is the insight into the responses to the differing circumstances of the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The buildings described are encouraging evidence for architecture's potential to enhance wellbeing and to shape people's expectations.' - Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

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Justin De Syllas trained at the AA and the Bartlett Schools of Architecture in London. After working for a number of leading architectural practices and teaching for several years he joined Avanti Architects in 1985, where he was a director for 26 years. He acted as lead consultant for the Barrhead Health and Care Centre in Scotland and was the Avanti director in charge of the development, with Kennedy FitzGerald Architects, of designs for the Grove Health and Wellbeing Centre in Belfast and Portadown Health Centre, both in Northern Ireland. These, alongside seven projects by other architects, are featured as case studies in the book.

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