Spanish medical centres will have a common sign system that meets cognitive accessibility requirements

The Spanish Royal Board on Disability, through its advisory centre the Spanish Centre for Cognitive Accessibility (CEACOG), the Regional Government of Extremadura and the Cognitive Accessibility Office of Extremadura (OACEX) have collaborated in the evaluation, design and implementation of cognitive accessibility measures to improve orientation, walking, understanding and participation in a healthcare environment.

The new measures aim to be catalysts for ensuring the right to health for all people, and have been implemented in the Mérida Norte Health Centre as a pilot test. These measures are:

• Use of different colour ranges to identify general spaces and specialties located in them.
• Design and validation of pictograms associated with the services or dependencies existing in the health centre.
• Homogeneous and coherent signage system. The person will have information at all times to orient themselves, move around and find the existing services or dependencies.
• Application of Easy-to-read in the signage system and in the relevant written information available to people. 
• Incorporation of QR codes in the main directories, informing, in a simple way, about the composition and distribution of the spaces that make up the building.

With what it learns from this and other centres, CEACOG will create a common signalling system for health centres in Spain.