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Patients ‘would benefit from Light Diet’

Hospital patients would benefit from the ‘Light Diet’ proposed by Lighting Design House, senior designer Dina Chowdury told a recent panel discussion between NHS facilities and energy managers and lighting professionals, chaired by Lux magazine. ‘In hospitals, the ideal is to have LED panels to achieve general lighting of 150 lux on wards, which can be automated with manual override at the nurse station,’ Dina told Lux. ‘Patients would then have local task lighting via a bedside light, with colour options that they can control. The perfect formula is a pinch of blue to kickstart activity, a dollop of sunlight, some swirls of visual delight, a pinch of amber red later in the day and a big dollop of darkness to aid sleep.’


In addition to how to use hospital lighting to improve patient outcomes, the panel also looked at ways to save the National Health Service energy. The NHS needs to standardise its LED lighting, Dina said. ‘You can get LEDs with 2700K colour temperatures now and CRIs of 90 which perform like halogens. But whereas halogens can all run on the same transformers, every LED lamp has a different driver. Standardisation is needed because otherwise the NHS will be left with an inventory problem.’

Click Lux magazine on hospital lighting to read the full report

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Industry professional on MA Course

“Totally honoured to be among the industry professionals involved in the online MA Interior Design for the Health and Wellbeing course at New Bucks University” Mary Rushton-Beales

Build Back Better judge

“So excited to be a judge on the Build Back Better Awards.” Mary Rushton-Beales Lighting Design House

Suffering from S.A.D?

Recently I have had occasion to look at 3 individuals’ home-working environments, who all suffer from S.A.D. This led me to reprise a vein of enquiry via NHS Health A-Z which really annoyed me…

Is blue light bad for your child? Article by Mary Rushton-Beale

Is blue light bad for our children?

I wonder if one day we will talk about the time when we spent hours without respite looking at a cool white screen, in the same way as we talk about how doctors used to promote cigarettes? Mary Rushton-Beales

Residential lighting

…the lighting in your home
needs to adapt to many different moods, ambient and functional

Lighting rocks

‘I’ve been designing the lit environment for more than 30 years and I suppose it’s quite appropriate that this was my most difficult lighting challenge ever’ Mary Rushton-Beales

Interior lighting

… fine-tuned for the space and its function but, above all, for people

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IALD Light night

IALD Light night, an evening of film 15 March, 6.30 start Avatar Presented by Mary Rushton Beale Full details IALD Film Night

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