Applications

Hospitals and Healthcare


Nowhere is the need for performance, efficiency and comfort in illumination more apparent than in the hospital or healthcare establishment.

Such applications call for Thorn’s specialist knowledge in how to make lighting work to the very best advantage.
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Forth Valley Royal Hospital
Thorn supply new Scottish hospital
The new £300m Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, which started taking some of its first patients in August, is Scotland’s largest NHS construction project with 4,000 rooms and 16 theatres, and is lit by over 15,000 Thorn fluorescent luminaires.

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Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley
Uplights down glare
Good hospital lighting is not simply a question of using stereotyped arrangements of lights and increasing lighting levels. It is matching a system to particular requirements.

An extension by part of the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, provides an excellent example.