Department of Health documents within the Construction Information Service

• Accident and emergency departments: planning and design guidance
• Acoustics
• Adult acute mental health units
• Adult in-patient facilities
• Bedhead services
• Cancer treatment facilities
• Cardiac facilities
• Circulation and communication spaces
• Clinical and clinical support spaces
• Consulting, examination and treatment facilities - supplement A: sexual and reproductive health clinics
• Critical care units
• Decontamination in primary care dental practices
• Decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Design and installation
• Decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Operational management
• Decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Policy and management
• Decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Testing methods
• Decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Validation and verification (including storage/drying cabinets)
• Decontamination of linen for health and social care: engineering, equipment and validation
• Decontamination of linen for health and social care: guidance for linen processors implementing BS EN 14065
• Decontamination of linen for health and social care: management and provision
• Decontamination of linen for health and social care: social care
• Dementia-friendly health and social care environments
• Electrical services supply and distribution
• Encode 2015 - making energy work in healthcare. Environment and sustainability. Part A: Policy and management
• Encode 2015 - making energy work in healthcare. Environment and sustainability. Part B: Procurement and energy considerations for new and existing building facilities
• Facilities for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)
• Facilities for primary and community care services
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions - part C: textiles and furnishings
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions - part E: escape lifts in healthcare premises
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions - part G: laboratories on healthcare premises
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions - part J: guidance on fire engineering of healthcare premises
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions part D: Commercial enterprises on healthcare premises
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions part F: Arson prevention in NHS premises
• Firecode - fire safety in the NHS. Operational provisions part M: Guidance on the fire safety of atria in healthcare buildings
• Firecode - guidance in support of functional provisions (fire safety in the design of healthcare premises)
• Flooring
• General design guidance for healthcare buildings
• HBN 03-02: supplement A - facilities for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) case studies
• Health Building Note 00-08 Addendum 1 – a guide to the healthcare system in England for local planning authorities
• Health Building Note 00-08 Addendum 2 – a guide to town planning for health organisations
• Infection control in the built environment
• Lifts
• Main renal unit
• Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. Part A: management and provision
• Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. Part B: common elements
• Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. Part C: steam sterilization
• Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. Part D: washer-disinfectors
• Management and decontamination of surgical instruments (medical devices) used in acute care. Part E: alternatives to steam for the sterilization of reusable medical devices
• Managing healthcare fire safety. 2nd edition
• Maternity care facilities
• Medical gases - medical gas pipeline systems - part A: design, installation, validation and verification
• Medical gases - medical gas pipeline systems - part B: operational management
• Neonatal units
• NHS car-parking management: environment and sustainability
• Performance specification D 08: thermostatic mixing valves (healthcare premises)
• Pharmacy and radiopharmacy facilities
• Planning for a resilient healthcare estate
• Policies and principles of healthcare engineering
• Prevention and control of infection in care homes - an information resource
• Resilience and emergency planning in primary and community care
• Safe water in healthcare premises - part A - design, installation and commissioning
• Safe water in healthcare premises - part B: operational management
• Safe water in healthcare premises: part C - Pseudomonas aeruginosa - advice for augmented care units
• Sanitary assemblies
• Sanitary spaces
• Satellite dialysis unit
• Strategic framework for the efficient management of healthcare estates and facilities
• Supplementary information for Part A
• Surgery - day surgery facilities
• Sustainable health and social care buildings. Planning, design, construction and refurbishment
• Walls and ceilings
• Water management and water efficiency – best practice advice for the healthcare sector
• Windows and associated hardware