Two Point Hospital

Two Point Hospital

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Leo's Tips List for Hospital Bliss
By LeoMike
General tips for those frustrating moments of hospital management.

There are plenty more in depth guides already but I wanted to do something a little more succinct and bullet pointed.

This is my first guide, so be kind but feedback, comments and questions welcome.
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General Tips
Build rooms to their minimum required size (excluding wards, cafes, reception areas)
  • Small rooms means more rooms and less time to travel for patients and staff
  • Prestige level 5 is possible even in the smallest GP room with Gold certificates
  • Lots of compact, high prestige rooms will maximise your hospitals value

Pay attention to interaction spots and plan your room/hospital layouts carefully
  • Avoid placing treatment machines so that the interaction spot is far from the door
  • Don’t make patients/staff walk through a large room to get to the treatment machine
  • Don’t be afraid to up and move whole rooms as your hospital grows

Build Diagnosis/Treatment rooms in separate clusters
  • Don’t make someone walk back and forth through your hospital to be diagnosed
  • Seperate your DNA lab/Psychiatry treatment room from diagnosis versions

The MegaScan, General Diagnosis and Cardiology are sufficient for most diagnosis
  • Other diagnosis rooms (X-ray) are redundant late game and have long animations
  • MegaScan can diagnose most issues when supplemented with General Diagnosis
  • Lots of different diagnosis rooms will waste precious time and increase your costs

Don’t bother with plants (unless you want them for visual reason)
  • While cost effective to buy, they will cost you more in the long run in Janitor costs
  • Gold Certificates and posters can increase prestige/beauty without taking up room
  • When plants wilt they have a negative impact on the area’s beauty

Place chairs, coffee machines and sweet dispensers in treatment rooms
  • Placing chairs will help stop the staff member from wandering off
  • The coffee machine will reduce thirst and speed up their walking to other rooms
  • Sweet dispensers will stave off hunger and keep staff in the room longer

Don’t bother with cafes/newsagents/gift shops
  • Centralised eating/drinking/buying will cause patients to leave queues and wander
  • If you do have to have them, make the cafes small and dot them around

Vending machines, arcades and other boredom/hunger/thirst reducing items.
  • Balance their usage, they reduce hunger and boredom, but can cause chaos
  • If you do want them, keep them near diagnosis areas to reduce wandering
  • Make sure they don’t block corridors with queues
  • Worth placing in Staff rooms to allow staff to rest,eat and reduce boredom

Don’t hire highly skilled staff (unless you have to for training purposes or immediate need)
  • Un-skilled staff with nice personalities will cost a lot less to hire and keep
  • Un-skilled staff can be highly specialised without unwanted skills

Don’t hire staff with negative attributes (hire if you have to but fire when you can)
  • No one wants a janitor who litters
  • The longer you keep them the more experience they get instead of someone better

Don’t auto accept staff wage rises
  • Lower the suggested pay rise down as far as you can before they get unhappy
  • Staff trained from scratch cost a lot less than hiring someone at that same level

Skip the final diagnosis GP queues
  • You can set patients to skip returning to GP for final diagnosis in the hospital policy menu UPDATED SINCE NEW RELEASE
  • This skips them returning to the GP a final time which saves time for everyone
13 Comments
Titler 8 Jul, 2022 @ 11:14am 
Nice simple guide, one thing I would add though is that for Diagnosis/Treatment, Psychiatry I just give every doctor Level 5 Psychiatry as it does both, and for DNA, a mix of Treatment/Diag is usually enough to finish the job to pass any Star rating, if your GPs and other Diagnosis is good.
LeoMike  [author] 16 Jul, 2021 @ 1:01am 
I do not believe you can make a dedicated diagnostic Doctor choose a dedicated Psychiatric room over a treatment version of the same room (as in there is no game option beyond dropping them in it). However, you can make it so that they are less likely to move to another room. Make sure you have enough staff so that they do not get called away. Ensure diagnostic versions of rooms are kept apart from treatment rooms ideally with a dedicated staff room so they don't wander away to other hospital areas. Place chairs in the room so that when they stop doing things they are likely to just sit down and rest rather than wander away from the room. Diagnostic version of rooms tend not to suffer from the wandering as they often have constant patients knocking at the door, but it's definitely something that happens with more infrequently used treatment version of rooms. Worse case scenario you just need to keep an eye on things and manually move them around when they go somewhere else.
JCH 15 Jul, 2021 @ 2:47pm 
Thanks so much. I was looking for separate diagnoses and treatment and I didn't see the option.
But, there's any way to keep a doctor in a specific room? How can I do that a specific doctor specialist in diagnostic, remain in a room just for that?
scragg 27 Jun, 2021 @ 4:41pm 
Wow thanks I played this game for 100 hours but never noticed that!
LeoMike  [author] 27 Jun, 2021 @ 2:08pm 
Hey Technoman. Rooms that support diagnosis/treatment have two buttons on the room info panel where you can toggle whether they do one or both. Then, I would just physically separate the rooms, so your DNA lab for diagnosing can be near the GP office etc while the treatment version can be somewhere else and won't get blocked up with the near constant diagnostic queues.
scragg 19 Jun, 2021 @ 11:09pm 
> Seperate your DNA lab/Psychiatry treatment room from diagnosis versions

How do you do this?
samantha m 25 Oct, 2020 @ 3:05am 
thank you so much this really helps
wicked lester 15 Oct, 2020 @ 5:38pm 
Also, make sure all vending machines for patients are the same kind. Otherwise they'll wander the hospital to get to the one they prefer.
Mo_Wandu 18 May, 2020 @ 7:51am 
This is so useful! Thank you!
Tangles 29 Mar, 2020 @ 2:02am 
The exact procedure to make patients skip the final GP diagnosis is:
* Go to the bottom-left menu [...], then click [OVERVIEW].
* Click on the [POLICY] tab.
* Make sure that "Fast Track Treatment Decision" is ticked.

Also, on that some screen, you can change the "Diagnosis Threshold for Treatment"... I initially have mine set at 95% when I start out at a new hospital - this seems to ensure a much better cure rate, particularly when your staff are relatively inexperienced and your machines may not be fully upgraded and it's also not too busy. As things get busier I gradually reduce it to 90%. I know it doesn't seem like much but if it saves the odd extra trip to a diagnosis room or the GP before treatment then it's worth it, just to get them out of the hospital.