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Department of Health - Temporary Side Room
Two and a half years ago some 600 NHS frontline staff, many of them infection control specialists, were asked to make suggestions on the types of new product that they felt might best help combat infection in hospitals. Late in 2007 and early in 2008 the Department of Health in concert with the NHS National Innovation centre and Renfrew Group International began developing concept designs for an isolation tent for use on the ward – this subsequently became known as the Temporary Isolation Unit.
All parties worked collaboratively to devise several solutions that could be quickly and easily be erected within a busy ward to provide an effective barrier against infection spread from the patient housed inside to visitors, staff and others on the ward. The core requirement for units within the NHS was estimated at 3000 units, but other potential applications such as those in military and disaster relief field hospitals have also been cited.
