The emergency department is where healthcare design is put under pressure.

Patients arrive in pain, fear, confusion, or crisis. Staff must make rapid decisions while managing unpredictable demand, competing priorities, limited resources, and constant movement.

But how much of that pressure is created—or amplified—by the environment itself?

In this episode of Designed 4 Recovery, we look beyond the conventional ED floor plan and ask a more fundamental question:

What should an emergency department enable?

We explore how patient-centred, evidence-based design can improve the journey from arrival and triage to assessment, treatment, discharge, or inpatient admission.

The conversation examines the essential design requirements of a contemporary ED, including:

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