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Group 1 Medical locations - can an EBB be used to serve more than a single room?

Simon Bourke

Under BS 7671 is it appropriate to treat multiple single patient locations as one medical local location with a shared EBB?

For example[le where there are a number of rooms with similar clinical procedures, adjacent to each other, can an EBB share a number of rooms to avoid having an EBB  in each room, see image below?

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    "Medical location" is defined in Part 2. It is silent as to whether a single location is limited to one room.

    If a hospital's operating theatres are a "medical location", they include a number of rooms.

    The latter may be out of vogue, but would an operating theatre and its anaesthetic room be one or two locations? I think one, so rooms, or even cubicles do not define the location.

    Also out of vogue are "Nightingale wards", but we seemed to survive with a couple of dozen patients plus staff in one room.

    So, I would say, "yes".

    Incidentally, all our conclusions may become out of date in a couple of months.

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    "Medical location" is defined in Part 2. It is silent as to whether a single location is limited to one room.

    If a hospital's operating theatres are a "medical location", they include a number of rooms.

    The latter may be out of vogue, but would an operating theatre and its anaesthetic room be one or two locations? I think one, so rooms, or even cubicles do not define the location.

    Also out of vogue are "Nightingale wards", but we seemed to survive with a couple of dozen patients plus staff in one room.

    So, I would say, "yes".

    Incidentally, all our conclusions may become out of date in a couple of months.

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