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Health Technical Memorandum 05-02: Guidance to support functional provisions in healthcare premises

HTM 05-02 sets out healthcare specific measures to meet functional requirements of Part B (Fire Safety) to the Building Regulations 2000 for all healthcare buildings. It replaces HTM 81 and HTM 85

The full electronic version of this publication is available to NHS staff on the Knowledge and Information Portal in the ‘Publications' folder.

For other organisations, the full electronic version is available from IHS/Technical Indexes and the Barbour Index.

• Download executive summary of HTM 05-02 in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
• Estates and Facilities Knowledge and Information Portal (KIP) (opens new window)
• IHS/Technical Indexes (opens new window)
• Barbour Index (opens new window)
• The full printed text of HTM 05-02 may be purchased from The Stationery Office (opens new window)