The Hospital Wards of the Future Framework

Changing the roll of hospital in far future and necessity of long and medium term planning regarding to these changes is undeniable. Evaluation and selection of different approaches to change the hospitals, requires extensive investigations in this area to find the best response, considering the conditions and characteristics of a country.
This study was conducted in two phases: comparative and interviews with experts. The aim was to gather information about active hospital wards in other countries in the first phase and to obtain expert opinions about the wards needed in the years ahead, in the second phase.
The results indicated the necessity of expanding outpatient departments in the field of: chronic diseases and cancer, geriatrics (regarding to population aging trend), Recovery after long-term care, sleep clinics, health infrastructure services such as weight management, management of risk factors, lifestyle modification and in some cases, more specialized inpatient departments such as bone marrow transplantation and toxicity.
Based on results obtained, the proposed future structure of the hospitals is divided at four levels, the public and nation-wide wards, specialty and subspecialty wards which is limited to some hospitals in the country, luxury and unnecessary wards services and alternative and complementary medicine wards.