Design in Mental Health 2015 Show Preview


Highlighting good design’s role in recovery


The 2015 Design in Mental Health Conference, Exhibition & Dinner takes place from 19-20 May at the National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull. A central theme of this year’s conference – which will see stakeholders ranging from architects and clinicians to service-users give personal standpoints – will be the key role good design plays in recovery. The event will also see the unveiling of the ‘Better Bedroom 2’. The Network reports.


Presenting ‘the latest service user- led design thinking’, the two-day conference will focus on the optimal strategies for developing safe, secure therapeutic environments that meet both service-user and staff needs. Alongside academic research and expert opinion, the presentations will include first-hand service-user testimony. The organisers say: “With a full


two-day conference programme, over 50 exhibitors showcasing hundreds of innovative products, and a dinner and awards ceremony (at the NMM on the evening of 19 May), this year’s event promises a compelling two days for those actively driving innovation in mental healthcare environments.” John Short, chief executive of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, will give this year’s opening conference address, ‘Good design in mental health is essential to deliver quality’, covering: • What are the lessons learnt since we started building mental health asylums in the 1840s?


• What are the best designs today to deliver real quality in care?


• How do we ensure we deliver them across the country?


• How well do staff work in mental health buildings, and how can we get the best out of them?


• Is it somewhere where you would want to spend four weeks or two years – making it personal?


Examining How not to design a perfect mental hospital or clinic in the following address will be consultant and author, Lisa Rodrigues. A writer and mental


Keynote speakers John Short and Professor Fiona Mason.


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health campaigner, she has spent most of her career in nursing and health service management, including 13 years running the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and related services in the South East of England.


INNOVATIVE JOINT VENTURE Another Day One presentation, this time with an estates-related theme, How can estates departments work with service-users to


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improve the environment?, will be given by Steve Jameson, Property Services director at Red Rose Corporate Services, Elizabeth Harrison, project leader at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Joan Melville, director of Business Development at Ryhurst. In October 2010 Ryhurst signed a joint-venture partnership with the Trust which has since helped improve operational efficiencies, saved money via improved asset use/management and re-tendering, and achieved substantial savings across hard and soft FM. ‘Space Utilisation’ projects alone have helped the Trust save £600,000. Service-user input has been key to a set of initiatives which has also significantly improved the service- user and staff environment. Last September, Ryhurst and the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust announced the ‘official launch’ of Red Rose Corporate Services (RRCS), following the previous May’s formal transfer of the management of the Trust’s Property and Estates services to RRCS.


A CLINICIAN’S VIEW


Talking from a clinician’s standpoint in the opening keynote Day Two address, Delivering recovery through innovative environments, will be Professor Fiona Mason, a leading clinician in women’s mental healthcare, and chief medical officer at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Also associate registrar for Leadership and Management at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, her national roles have included work with the Department of Health, legislators, and the judiciary, to change the law on rape.


Jenny Gill will chair many of the conference sessions.


‘With a full two-day conference programme, and over 50 exhibitors, this year’s event promises a compelling two days for those actively driving innovation in mental healthcare environments’


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