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Joe Forster President
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Jenny Gill Chair/Secretary
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Clive Stone Treasurer
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Philip Ross Membership
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Dr Evangelia Chrysikou Research Lead
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www.dimhn.org Moving forward with ever-greater ambition
Looking forward to this year’s Design In Mental Health conference and exhibition (see pages 9-15 for a show preview) also gives us an opportunity to look back. But this is not in an attempt to return to the past, or even primarily to learn from it. It is a chance to appraise how our structures and relationships have changed and, by seeing how far we have come, to lose the fear of moving forward with ever-greater ambition. Some of the speakers will draw comparison with the era of the asylums. This is not to criticise or to bemoan their loss, rather it is to emphasise how different an age that now seems. What might our view in future be when we look back at our past selves and how we were involved in the services of today? Our conference is very much about our future selves – how we are responding not just to the issues of
JOURNAL OF THE DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK
Joe Forster
COVER PICTURE: An artist’s impression of the interior of the new Calderdale Community Hub in Halifax, one of two such facilities being designed by P+HS Architects for South Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to provide easily accessible local mental healthcare services.
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Halifax’s ‘hub’ at the heart of the community
P+HS Architects has been tasked with designing two community hub facilities within Barnsley and Halifax to provide easily accessible, local, and welcoming buildings.
Standardisation’s many benefits outlined
Having initially focused on the acute health sector, the ProCure21 +Repeatable Rooms and Standardised Components initiative now also encompasses mental healthcare inpatient accommodation.
Access control system aids smooth running
How a leading hardware specialist and DIMHN member helped a Bradford mental healthcare Trust overcome a taxing access control problem.
Implications for design in mental health
A book by the Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool argues for significant changes in the care and treatment of those with mental health issues.
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today, but equally to the challenges of tomorrow. Our viewpoint is changing; we seek not only what is best for today, but what is fit for tomorrow. We may be occupying these buildings and using these products for a long time, but we are increasingly aware how rapidly our requirements and expectations of our services can change. Levels of acuity, length of stay and delivery of therapy, are under continual review, and certain mental health services in the UK are progressing brave aspirations to not just reduce, but to fully eliminate their use of physical restraint and their incidence of suicide. Strategically, the integration of health and social care has taken centre-stage, and could lead to rethinking models of service. While we can work hard to design in flexibility and responsiveness to our solutions, just as important is for the people who use them to understand how they can adapt them to their changing needs. This issue of The Network has a wide range of material illustrating the responses to these challenges. Two contrasting examples are the completed new building at Clock View, and the temporary accommodation occupied by HAFS while they seek funding to build their proposed Centre of Excellence. The common feature is the influence of service- users, staff and the community, on these and other projects. The Network will go on to include more detailed evaluation from both those services, and we are keen to hear about other projects, at any stage of completion, in future issues. We invite contributions for the next (July 2015) issue, which need to be received by the editor, Jonathan Baillie, at:
jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com, by 11 May 2015 latest.
Joe Forster President, Design In Mental Health Network
NEWS Design in Mental Health 2015 show preview
We preview next month’s 2015 Design in Mental Health Conference, Exhibition & Dinner at the National Motorcycle Museum.
Joint standards development progressing
A focus on the DIMHN’s ongoing collaboration with built environment consultancy, BRE, to develop product standards for mental healthcare settings.
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