A learning disability perspective: A Walk through the Midland Metropolitan Hospital
The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) opened on 6 October 2024.
With such a huge change in patient service delivery locations, there are challenges for patients, visitors, and staff wayfinding around the hospital. The usefulness and effectiveness of hospital signage is a key part of the experience people receive.
With such a huge change in patient service delivery locations, there are challenges for patients, visitors, and staff wayfinding around the hospital. The usefulness and effectiveness of hospital signage is a key part of the experience people receive.
The term wayfinding describes the processes people go through to find their way round an environment. The wayfinding process is fundamentally problem-solving and is affected by many factors, people’s perception of the environment, the wayfinding information available, their ability to orientate themselves spatially, and the cognitive and decision-making processes they go through, all affect how successfully they find their way.”
Through our work programme 2025/26 listening tour we found that people were dissatisfied with services and care received at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, including wayfinding to appointments and when visiting people who were receiving treatment.
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A learning disability perspective: The Midland Metropolitan Hospital
