Doctors, nurses and staff of Starship Children’s Hospital’s have long outgrown the current configuration of Ward 27B’s internal medication facilities. This refurbishment project is the result of a co-creative process between designer and healthcare experts to provide future doctors, nurses and staff a space that considers ideal work-flow, medicine safety, security, updated inventory management and general human-factors consideration.

Currently Starship Children's Hospital's Ward 27B medication room has been identified to require design input to help better space utilization. The current state of this medication room is a result of incremental changes which has created a non-cohesive ecosystem for nurses to handle hazardous medicines. In this brief we are to work with the ground staff to redesign the medication room to suit their current and future needs, consider ideal work flows, medicines safety, inventory management and general human factors.

Success for this project can be defined as a collaborative process between healthcare experts of Starship’s Children’s hospital Paediatric Haematology/Oncology department and Designer to produce a new concept design for the medication room of ward 27B that will function with better workflow efficiency and space utilization. The end goal of this redesigned room is to create a “clean and orderly space with everything in it’s place” (A.Conley, 2020), enable tidier behaviours in users and ultimately a space that minimizes distraction during the medication selection process.