Scottish Healthcare Built Environment Network

We connect people and evidence to design, deliver, and maintain safe, effective, and person centred healthcare settings across Scotland.

Our vision statement
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We invite collaboration with SHBEN to improve Scotland’s healthcare built environment

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SHBEN is a collaborative initiative between
NHS Scotland Assure and academic partners.

We aim to transform high-quality research into practical guidance and standards that enhance healthcare environments across Scotland.
We seek to connect researchers, clinicians, designers, and policymakers to collaboratively tackle complex healthcare challenges.
We aspire to deliver fast, actionable research to address urgent challenges and emerging issues in healthcare environments.
We plan to share expertise and build capabilities through events, CPD opportunities, and collaborative learning across the healthcare built environment community.
We aim to convene researchers, clinicians, estates and facilities professionals, designers, industry, and policymakers to accelerate high quality research and translate it into practice and policy.
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Evidence informed guidance
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Rapid response research
Knowledge exchange

All research.
Healthcare environments.

Infection prevention and control
Infection prevention and control.

Focus on decontamination, outbreak management, antimicrobial resistance, and ventilation to reduce healthcare-associated infections.
Healthcare facility design.

Learn about hospital layout, patient-centred design, governance, climate resilience, and ergonomics in healthcare construction.

Design

Discover events with SHBEN.
For learning, networking, and shaping healthcare.

SHBEN Launch Event

January 15, 2026

Explore latest news
Breaking research, partner updates, and sector highlights.

  • Network updates

Welcome to the Scottish Healthcare Built Environment Network

Our partners
driving innovation together.

Marcel Ziebold

Teamlead HR Analytics & Systems

Edinburgh Napier University – the #1 modern university in Scotland and the leading university in Edinburgh for student satisfaction

Collaboration

Edinburgh Napier University is a founding academic partner of SHBEN, bringing established research expertise in healthcare built environment, infection prevention and control, and evidence-based design. The partnership enables SHBEN to deliver rigorous interdisciplinary research, provide postgraduate training opportunities, and translate academic insights into practical guidance that shapes healthcare policy and practice across Scotland.

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Marcel Ziebold

Teamlead HR Analytics & Systems

NHS Scotland Assure – part of National Services Scotland, delivering coordinated risk management and quality improvement across NHS Scotland’s healthcare environments

Collaboration

NHS Scotland Assure has been designed with users to deliver a coordinated approach to the improvement of risk management and quality in the healthcare environment across NHS Scotland. We underpin a transformation in the approach to promoting excellence, protecting patients from the risk of infection, and supporting better outcomes for the population. NHS Scotland Assure provides clinical and technical expertise to minimise risk and improve quality, practice and sustainability in the healthcare environment. This is achieved through the development of national policy, sharing of good practice, development of technology and innovation as well as delivering effective advice and support.

NHSScotland Assure Services include:

  • Engineering & Assurance
  • Research, Innovation & Intelligence
  • Workforce Development
  • Facilities
  • Property, Sustainability & Capital Planning
  • ARHAI Scotland
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