Len BartholomewThe author Len Bartholomew is a retired architect who has spent most of his working life specialising in the design of hospitals. He was able to do this without ever needing to sample life in hospital as an inpatient until he retired, when he was admtted as a Trauma patient to a large London teaching hospital. He had hoped that by the time he retired, every hospital would be fit for purpose. Also he expected that, at some time in the not so distant future, fewer large hospitals would be needed. These would be replaced by bright, shiny, optimistic and therapeutic smaller hospitals. Waiting lists would be a thing of the past in a responsive NHS. The "shock horror" experience of being referred to a large teaching hospital confirmed the reality that the NHS was nowhere near providing the right kind of hospitals needed for the 2020s. This prompted the need to write this book. Read More Read Less