title: Suppliers respond to multiple demands.
abstract: The range and choice of flooring now available for use in hospitals, care homes, GP's surgeries, and other healthcare facilities, is now seemingly almost unlimited, as, it seems, are the creative and design possibilities given flooring manufacturers' ability to incorporate not only a broad palette of different colours, but also a myriad of designs. Having considered some of the key safety and other practical considerations when selecting flooring on pages 59-62, HEJ reports here on a number of interesting recent healthcare flooring installations in the UK and overseas--where flooring's ability, in tandem with other elements such as furniture, lighting, and wallcoverings, to transform the clinical, staff, or patient environment, is clearly evident.
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D005430:Floors and Floorcoverings / Q000592:standards*; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006113:United Kingdom