The Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme was launched by HRH The Prince of Wales, President of the King's Fund in 2000, as part of the King's Fund's activities to mark the millennium.

The aim of this innovative grants and development programme is to encourage and enable local Trust teams to work in partnership with service users to improve the environment in which they deliver care and consists of two main elements

• a development programme for a nurse led, multidisciplinary Trust team
• a grant fo the team to undertake a project to improve their patient environment

By spring 2008 150 teams from 138 NHS Trusts, two hospices and six HM prisons will have joined the programme and over 1,500 staff and patients will have been involved in improving their healthcare environment.

Please click here for further information about the EHE Programme or the King's Fund