Canopies for Healthcare

Optimising Outdoor Spaces for Healthcare

Kensington Systems provide attractive, long-lasting shelters designed to optimise and enhance outdoor spaces for hospitals and healthcare establishments across the UK.

25 year warranty
All groundworks included
Innovative, modern design

Anti-Ligature Canopies

A canopy cannot be entirely ligature-free, but you can minimise ligature risk. With safety features such as a non-fragile roof, built-in gutters, concealed downpipes and non-exposed bolts or fixings, a Spaceshade® canopy is well-suited suited to high-risk environments like mental health facilities.

Walkway Canopies

Moving around your hospital site will be safer and more comfortable for patients and staff with Spaceshade® walkway canopies. With the ability to add lighting, sidewalls and doors, our canopies can be customised to meet your needs and help protect vulnerable patients from the weather.

Entrance Canopies

Create a welcoming first impression for patients with our entrance canopies. Kensington Systems' entrance canopies come in attractive, modern designs, including timber and aluminium, that will enhance any building.

Canopies for Gardens & Recreation Areas

With the option to add infill panels or retractable blinds, our canopies can create a dry, weather-protected space for patients to enjoy the benefits of spending time outside. The clean lines and modern design enhances any outdoor setting.

Shade Sails

Create a shaded recreation or relaxation area and a striking feature with a shade sail. Available in a wide range of vibrant colours, we offer a choice of designs, including multi-post shade sails, umbrella-style single posts, or bespoke design.

Cycle Shelters

Secure cycle storage is very important in a public, high-traffic area like a hospital or health centre. Choose from a steel or timber cycle shelter, for safe, all-weather cycle storage. We offer standard, cost-effective, off-the-shelf design, or bespoke solutions.

Case study

Creating a Welcoming First Impression at Foleshill Health Centre

A glulam timber entrance canopy creates a stunning feature and welcoming first impression at this new GP surgery in Coventry.

Safe & Anti-Ligature

With safety features including built-in gutters, concealed downpipes and no exposed bolts or fixings, Spaceshade(R) canopies are robust and high-quality, ideal for use in higher-risk environments like mental health facilities.

Easy Maintenance

Our powdercoated aluminium Spaceshade(R) canopies are extremely durable and corrosion-free. They’re easy to care for and maintain, and carry a 25 year warranty, ideal for a healthcare setting where high performance and low maintenance is demanded.

Experienced in Healthcare Environments:

We’ve been working in and with hospitals and health centres for over 30 years, and understand their unique needs and requirements. We’re used to working around their schedules, and maintaining the highest standards of site cleanliness and health and safety.

End-to-end Project Management

From design and structural calculations through to groundworks and installation, we manage the whole process, guaranteeing a friction-free experience for our clients.

Enclosed Canopies

All-Weather Outdoor Spaces

Enclosed canopies with additional side walls or infill panels help to protect patients and staff when outside. Choose from glass, polycarbonate or solid side walls, with the option to add doors or openings to suit your needs. Our Spaceshade canopies also allow for lighting and heaters to be seamlessly integrated into the design.

In a mental health environment, incorporating infill panels to the sides of a Spaceshade canopy decreases potential ligature risk further.

Spending time outside is known to boost mood and overall health and wellbeing - allow your patients and staff to experience the benefits in a sheltered, weather-protected environment.

Value, quality and problem-solving approach

"I can confirm that Bristol North NHS Primary Care Trust regularly use Kensington Systems and have found their products and service to be satisfactory in terms of best value, quality and problem solving approach."

Keith Farley

Bristol North NHS Primary Care Trust

Prompt and professional

"Kensington have worked for us at The Great Western Hospital and 2 other locations - they have always delivered a professional and prompt service"

Steve Bathe

The Great Western Hospital

Enclosed Canopies

Anti-Ligature Shelters for a Mental Health Facility in Omagh

Western Health Trust, in Northern Ireland, wanted to give their patients a covered outdoor space to use in poor weather. They chose to install Spaceshade® canopies with sidewalls to keep ligature risks as low as possible.