In brief
- Our award-winning Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme encourages and enables nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care.
- Launched by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2000, the programme initially focused on improving acute hospital environments, before being extended to mental health and primary care settings. The latest phases include work to improve environments for care at the end of life and improve the environment in which health care is delivered to prisoners.
- To date, 150 teams from 133 NHS trusts, two hospices and five HM prisons across England have joined the programme and more than 1,500 staff and patients have been involved in improving their health care environments.
- The programme has received widespread recognition as a national exemplar both in terms of the individual projects and for acting as a catalyst for the NHS to consider the impact of the environment on recovery and the way care is delivered.
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