NEWS COVER STORY Water-resistant and robust bedroom range


The new water-resistant Ryno bedroom range from Pineapple has been designed specifically for bedrooms – private spaces where continuous observation for safety and security can be particularly challenging.


Building on the success of its award-winning Ryno range, Pineapple developed the range to address issues commonly associated with traditional cabinetry in challenging environments. Robust construction helps to resist damage, while the absence of doors, drawers, and sharp angles, minimises ligature opportunities ‘to help create safer spaces for those in crisis’.


Pineapple said: “Unlike wood-based products, which are susceptible to water damage, Ryno products are made from a single piece of antimicrobial polyethylene, making them fully water-resistant and easy to keep clean. This one-piece construction and absence of ‘pinch-points’ also help Ryno


products to dissipate impact, providing a strong and resilient option which can withstand outbreaks of challenging behaviour.


“While the functional benefits are essential, aesthetics also play an important part in the recovery pathway. The design ethos of the Ryno range draws on organic shapes from nature, helping to soften the built environment, encouraging harmony, and promoting wellbeing for those who need it. The range is available in a versatile palette of 10 colours, making it easier to create safe spaces brimming with vitality.”


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Much has been achieved in a busy year


The Design in Mental Health Network’s 2019 AGM, held on 9 October in Manchester, saw reports presented on the work of the various DiMHN Workstreams over a busy previous year.


Philip Ross, who leads the Testing and Innovation workstream, said 2019 had been one of the workstream’s most productive years yet, with the first draft of the BRE/DiMHN Testing Guidance (see also page 7) issued for industry-wide consultation in June, and all comments reviewed and responded to during September. The BRE Board is now considering the guidance, which it is hoped can be published over the next few months. Cath Lake, the lead for Stakeholder Engagement, reported that the past year had been used to form a strategy for the coming year’s focus, and that since delivering the Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit in October 2018, a number of projects had been considered, and ‘thoughts gathered’ from members via electronic surveys – including on how training might be delivered through partnership working to service-providers and NHS Trusts – the focus for the coming year. The DiMHN views the input of ‘experts by experience’ as ‘critical to the success of designing spaces for healthcare’. Research and Education Workstream lead, Professor Paula Reavey, reported on three successful projects – the Design with People in Mind book on Nature; the NAPICU joint project on environment, seclusion, and restrictive interventions, and the P22 Working Group project on improving patient feedback in inpatient environments. The book and the P22 project were completed on time and delivered at May’s DiMH 2019 conference, where they were well received. The


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Psychiatrists’ annual conference, the aim being to develop it into a national funding bid.


Presenting the Conference and Exhibition Workstream’s report, DiMHN chair, Jenny Gill, explained that, for 2019, the annual conference and exhibition had moved to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena. It had been the most successful conference and exhibition to date, with all numbers up, and the quality and number of award entries ‘extremely high’.


Professor thanked Philip Ross for his participation in the P22 group, and Rosemary Jenssen for being ‘the driving force’. She explained that the DiMHN’s goal was to develop the literature it publishes into ‘a total compendium’.


The NAPICU project was ‘almost at an end’, with quantitative and qualitative data being collected, and was ‘due to complete in the autumn’. A paper on it had been delivered at the Royal College of


Jenny Gill (pictured above with Treasurer, Clive Stone, at the AGM) explained that three directors – Jeff Bartle, Paula Reavey, and Philip Ross – had retired by rotation. She thanked Jeff Bartle, who resigned before the year-end due to ill- health, for all his work for the Network. Philip Ross and Professor Paula Reavey were re-elected to the board, being joined by a new member, Trudi Beswick, who is CEO of disabled children’s charity, Caudwell Children. Clive Stone has retired as the DiMHN’s Treasurer, with the role now to be held by Philip Barsby.


Jeff Bartle, who has contributed significantly to the DiMHN’s Testing & Innovation Workstream, resigned before the year end due to ill-health.


New Board member, Trudi Beswick, of Caudwell Children, has driven the charity’s work to help sick and disabled children.


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