UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANCY FOR BARCELONA HEALTH CENTRES

In May 2017, Barcelona City Council presented the Universal Accessibility Plan 2018-2026, designed with the aim of assessing the physical and communication accessibility of infrastructures that provide services to the public, as well as the accessibility of the products they offer. A plan that also included offering appropriate solutions to improve the condition of these infrastructures and to achieve, over time, an accessible and inhabitable urban environment for all the city's inhabitants.

Due to PMMT's experience in healthcare architecture and universal accessibility, the company was chosen to carry out the diagnosis of the city's 53 primary care centres. Over a period of six months, all of them were visited, their level of universal accessibility was analysed and a series of proposals for improvement were put forward, taking into account the immediate surroundings of the en trances, accesses, receptions, corridors, stairs and general lifts, public toilets and waiting rooms, as well as consultations rooms and standard offices. The data collection was carried out by PMMT's technical team specialising in universal accessibility with help from the Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities of Barcelona City Council.

The processing of the data, analysis of the results and proposals for improvement were carried out by PMMT. This analysis is included in the report ‘Universal accessibility audit, analysis and areas for improvement: Analysis of the Barcelona CAPS sample’, delivered to Barcelona City Council in May 2018.