Lack of Office Space in Medical Sector

Posted on June 13, 2008 at 10:43 am by Alan

The British Medical Association (BMA) has released a report highlighting the lack of office space and resources available in hospitals. The BMA claims that lack of office space is leading to breaches in patient confidentiality.

36 percent of junior doctors and consultants revealed that they believed that lack of appropriate office space had impaired their ability to give good patient care. The top issue was lack of space for confidential discussions.

50% of junior doctor and 25% of consultants felt that the office space available to them had dramatically declined within the past 12 months.

Dr Jonathan Fielden of the BMA advised:

The plush, spacious, consultant’s office is a figment of television imagination. Many consultants, junior doctors, and staff and associate specialist grade doctors have no office space at all. Those that do are struggling to cope in tiny spaces shared with colleagues. Doctors handle sensitive information and need space for private conversations with their patients and other staff.

Perhaps we’ll start to see this industry utilising serviced office space as a solution to this problem. Serviced office space providers can offer high quality, stylish offices with meeting rooms and break out rooms for meetings of a confidential nature. Fully resourced with all the latest office amenities this is a highly cost effective solution when office space becomes an issue.