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Summary of evidence stating the pros and cons of single rooms for new hospital design

Journal of Clinical Nursing - Exploring the influence of the 100% single-room environment on staff and patient experience of person-centred practice in an acute‐care setting

Journal of Nursing Management - The aim was to identify advantages and disadvantages for patients and nursing staff of a pending move to 100% single-room hospital, in anticipation of the challenges for nurse managers of a different ward environment. as well as comparison with findings from similar studies in England

Journal of Clinical Nursing - Exploring the influence of the 100% single-room environment on staff and patient experience of person-centred practice in an acute‐care setting

Explore how a single-room hospital design influenced student nurses' learning and competence development in clinical practice compared with shared-room accommodation

To explore the impact of the move to a newly built acute hospital with all single rooms on care delivery, working practices, staff and patient experience, safety outcomes and costs

The article focuses on a study comparing the nursing workload in single room wards with other wards. Findings indicate that less staff time is used in single-room wards so the productivity of health care workers is enhanced

There is evidence to support and to oppose 100 per cent single patient occupancy for adults (Table 1) but little evidence regarding children. This study explores the feasibility of a 100 per cent single room occupancy model for children and young people

This review evaluated both the effects of single-occupancy patient rooms (SPRs) on patient outcomes for hospitalized adults and user opinion related to SPRs

This study reports a pre-post intervention study to understand the effects of the move to a new children's hospital in Perth, Australia, on nurse workflow activities and on patient, family, and nurse experiences

Drawing on data from an internationally relevant larger study conducted in 2013-14, this article explores the sensory dimension of the embodied experiences of nursing staff working on two acute NHS hospital wards before and after a move to all-single room inpatient accommodation

To identify, examine, and map literature on the experiences of single-room hospital accommodation, exploring what is known about how single-room accommodation in hospitals is viewed by patients and nurses

In 2013, the "NHS Services, Seven Days a Week" project was initiated to improve access to services across the seven-day week. Three years on, they sought to analyse the impact of such changes across the English NHS

The paper, published in BMC Health Services Research, said that adverse clinical outcomes at the weekend might not be lessened by large scale reorganisation designed to create seven day services

This study explored the perceptions of AH staff regarding weekend and after-hour staffing models

The purpose of this paper is to identify the number of patients undergoing weekend surgery who receive a Day 1 post-operative review and improve this outcome by implementing an effective change

This study introduced structured seven-day working for consultants on a 28 bedded diabetes base ward. Subsequent evaluation of its impact on patient throughput measures is presented

The results of this study suggest that tight deadlines, performance pressure, weekend work and lack of working time autonomy are linked to impaired well-being among health care employees

The aim of this audit is to compare patient outcomes for both the year preceding and following introduction of a seven day physio service

The article discusses the seven-day working days proposed by the NHS in England. It mentions how this scheme aims to improve emergency care services during weekends. The clinical care standards included in the proposal include the involvement of patients and health care providers in decision making and the urgent assessment of patients upon arrival to the hospital

evaluate the extent to which our current provision of diagnostic and interventional radiology services matches existing clinical demand and future government proposals as set out in the Royal College of Radiologists published guidance on providing seven-day acute care

The East and North Herts inpatient diabetes service delivers care by consultants and diabetes nurses, 365 days per year. They set out to provide a prospectively measurable improvement in ascertainment of appropriate patients alongside a 'care bundle' to ensure they receive a better quality experience

Nevill Hall hospital Abergavenny, measured the workload on a junior doctor for medical ward cover on weekends by counting the number of times he/she was bleeped for routine tasks. Initial study demonstrated that on average 30-40% of time on a long day shift was spent on jobs which could have been done on the preceding Friday

To identify differences between weekend and weekday nurse work environments that might explain higher rates of neonatal mortality among babies born on weekends

To evaluate weekday compared with weekend multidisciplinary staffing in a national set of AMUs

This report describes the activity of a new 7-day-per-week, nurse-led palliative care service in an acute district general hospital in the UK

Weekend admission is associated with higher in-hospital mortality than weekday admission. Whether providing enhanced weekend staffing for acute medical inpatient services reduces mortality or length of stay is unknown

To explore differences in the prevalence, psychosocial risk factors and the connection to annual sick leave of nurses' emotional exhaustion depending on the care setting

To synthesise evidence for best practice hospital pharmacist services, with a focus on transitions of care, in support of an extended hours seven-day service model

Well Doctors Project supporting wellbeing and avoiding of trainee burnout