Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Birmingham's first maternity hospital was established in 1842 to reduce the number of women and children dying unnecessarily from puerperal fever and childbirth-related infections. The hospital has been on its present site since 1994 and is one of only two specialist women's healthcare centres in the UK. It offers a wide range of health services, mainly, but not exclusively, to women and their families. 

The Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust manages the Birmingham Children's Hospital and the Birmingham Women's Hospital. Always with the desire to offer the highest quality health care to women and children, not forgetting their families.  

Hermetic Doors with Electro-Polarised Glass 

Manusa with the support of Axis Entrance, were commissioned to install up to 8 hermetic doors at the entrance to the consulting rooms and oncology wards at Birmingham Children's Hospital. 

As this is a private space where patients require privacy for themselves and their family, at such a sensitive time as cancer treatment, the hermetic doors include venetian blind. 

What does this solution achieve? When the electro-polarised glass is not activated, the inside of the room can be seen from the outside without having to enter. However, when privacy is required, the electro-polarised glass leaf is activated, so that a transparent leaf becomes an opaque one. 

All this without sacrificing the airtightness offered by these doors which, by hermetically sealing the entrance, helps to maintain the area free from external contamination.