Specialist health facilities

Canterbury Campus simulation facilities

The Verena Holmes building

This state-of-the-art facility includes a full set of simulation suites to support health students. You'll find complete simulated hospital wards, x-ray rooms, an operating theatre, and nurses station - everything you'll need to prepare for real-world experiences in hospital.

Hospital wards

These simulated ward bays replicate the hospital environment and are complete with hospital beds, bed side cabinets, a nursing station, hoists, patient monitoring equipment, emergency trolley, and a variety of other equipment. Basic Life Support (BLS), Moving and Handling, and other practical sessions are also held in these rooms.

Occupational therapy flat

The occupational therapy facilities are designed to mirror the type of settings where therapy can be explored. The flat is a replica of a typical bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in the community, with a range of equipment and adaptations to enhance someone's independence. Students can role play scenarios outside the hospital and in the patient's home.

Radiography imaging suite and x-ray room

The radiography computer suite enables students to experience realistic clinical image viewing. The quality of the medical-grade screens is comparable to those currently used for reporting in clinical practice. The use of these realistic clinical image viewing stations, alongside our other PC rooms, enhance undergraduate and postgraduate students learning skills in medical image interpretation.

The X-ray room has the latest technology including a Philips Digital Diagnost C90) and a FujiFilm Nano mobile x-ray unit. The imaging suite and the X-ray equipment enable students to develop their radiographic skills in a safe environment and enhance simulated learning on campus.

Physiotherapy facilities

Physiotherapy students will be taught practical hands-on skills in their own dedicated area of the simulation suite. These facilities include equipment you would be using out on placement, to develop the skills and knowledge you need in a realistic simulated environment.

Medway Campus simulation facilities

Wards

Our simulation suites house fully-equipped wards. The ward area is divided into two ward bays. These ward bays replicate the hospital environment and are complete with hospital beds, bedside cabinets, a nursing station, hoists, patient monitoring equipment, emergency trolley and a variety of other equipment. Basic Life Support (BLS), Moving and Handling and other practical sessions are held in these rooms.

Operating theatre and scrub room

Students based in Medway will have access to our operating theatre and scrub room. Students and practitioners can use our fully staged operating theatre and scrub room – an imitation of a real NHS theatre suite. A one-way mirror separates the observation room and the operating theatre, so staged scenarios that take place can be observed and controlled from this room. The scrub room is a purpose built room for developing excellent aseptic techniques in hand-washing, gloving and gowning.