The Hospital That Silenced the Machines
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The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust launched the Silent Hospital Pilot Project in 2023 to address alarm fatigue and noise pollution by treating sound as digital data that can be routed rather than merely muffled, with hospital wards typically experiencing 50–70 decibels of continuous background noise—well above the World Health Organization's 30-decibel rest threshold.
The pilot is in its second phase; outcomes from hospitals adopting this approach elsewhere are not yet reported.
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