Clinics
Examination Room Furniture Planning for Clinics
Specify the occupied size, operating clearance and route into the building before choosing furniture by catalogue dimensions.
Explore the ideas
Compare the options
- Set the brief
- Use templates at the size of the actual furniture. Include seated users, open drawers and reclined positions where relevant.
- Compare
- Decide which items need to move independently and which benefit from built-in anchoring.
- Before buying
- Confirm that the largest pieces can turn at the entrance, lift lobby and corridor, or specify assembly in place.
Worked example
Imagine selecting a bedside chair and cabinet for a person whose transfer method and mobility aid may change over time. Standard furniture footprints omit helper movement.
Ask the care team and user to identify the transfer sequence and equipment envelope. Tape those positions with the furniture footprint, and favor pieces that can be moved independently as needs evolve.
How to test it
Overlay the furniture in its stored and in-use positions, then check both against the measured plan.
Apply it to this space
- Layout
- Keep the examination surface accessible from working sides and place a screen between the door and changing area.
- Detail
- Use easy-clean flooring and task lighting directed to the examination area with a separate ambient source.
- Trade-off
- More equipment storage can constrain staff movement.
- Walk the clinician route around the surface
- Check changing privacy from the doorway
The Elixir portfolio
Details worth a closer look
