2016 DIMH Awards Dinner
Photo courtesy of Jennie Webb, 2015.
Andrew Street and Colin Vines (second and third from left respectively) collect the Collaborative Estates & Facilities Team Award from DIMHN President, Joe Forster, and Frank Bruno.
Presented next was the Award for
‘Collaborative Estates & Facilities Team’, which ‘recognises the positive contribution made by estates and facilities teams to hospital buildings and mental health facilities’. The winning team must ‘demonstrate a focus on improving people’s lives and the patient experience, not just the engineering requirements of the building’. DIMHN President, Joe Forster, handed the 2016 award to Colin Vines, mental health consultant, and Andrew Street, studio associate at IBI Group, for the new £24 m Oberlands Centre, a new adult acute and CAMHS facility, and home for community- based mental health teams and groups such as MIND, on the site of the existing Princess Elizabeth Hospital at Saint Martin in Guernsey. The citation said: ‘Faced with the challenge of reconfiguring mental health services for the population, the winner of this category embarked on an ambitious programme of community involvement. Actively including all stakeholders resulted in stronger links within the local community, fewer out-of-area placements, and a reduction in inpatient admissions. The resulting new and refurbished buildings of the Oberlands Centre providing services are testimony to the collaborative efforts of the Health & Social Services Department of The States of Guernsey and IBI Group, which, in the judges’ opinion, made them worthy winners of this award.’
ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS The evening’s fourth award, the Healthy Outdoor Lifestyle Award, recognises the positive steps taken to improve the health and wellbeing of service-users by providing access to facilities and fitness programmes that support the Living Well for Longer initiative. The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, presented this award to Alison Jordan of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Bob Wills of Medical Architecture, for the Clock View Hospital on Merseyside. David Davies said the winners had impressed the
Bob Wills and Alison Jordan pick up the
Healthy Outdoor Lifestyle Award, for the gardens (inset) at Clock View Hospital, from The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie.
‘The judges described Clock View as a beacon, a shining light in what can be achieved by meaningful engagement with service-users, and a worthy winner of this award’
judges with their ‘commitment to creating spaces in a new-build project which allow inpatients and staff to enjoy views and access to them’. He said: “The Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust places improving physical health as one of three key priorities, and creating spaces for fitness programmes to take place in the open air was one of the major requirements for their new hospital. Arts and music are also very important, so space to enable an innovative programme to be compiled featured at the forefront.”
RECOGNISING PRODUCT INNOVATION No fewer than 12 companies were shortlisted for the 2016 Product Innovation Award, which was presented by event director, James Lee, to Chris Galvin, managing director of Galvin Specialised, for a shower control device – the GalvinCare anti-ligature shower valve with electronic activator – which incorporates anti- ligature features, and has a robust design, but which the judges also felt had a ‘normal domestic look’, and was ‘easy and
Chris Galvin, MD of Galvin Specialised, with Frank Bruno, having received the Product Innovation Award for the company’s anti-ligature shower valve.
understandable to operate’. The Refurbishment Project of the Year
Award recognises a project ‘demonstrating an innovative approach to design, showing best use of available space, resulting in a positive improvement in the therapeutic environment’. Sponsored by the Anti-Ligature Shop, the 2016 Award was presented by ALS MD, Carl Need, to Cath Lake of P+HS Architects, for Endcliffe – a new Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) within the existing Longley Centre at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital, who received it on behalf of both the practice, and joint winners, Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. Compère, David Davies, said: “Faced with
outdated 1970s buildings with poor wayfinding and lack of identity, the project team set about changing the facility into an outstanding therapeutic environment. Space within the building has been maximised, and the environment is both therapeutic and aesthetically pleasing, a pleasant space for staff and service-users. The judges were impressed with the vastly improved appearance and functionality of the building, which creates a positive impression, and helps destigmatise mental health.”
The Project of the Year Award went to The Oberlands Centre, a new acute and CAMHS facility in Guernsey. Colin Vines (second left) and Andrew Street received the award from Knightsbridge MD, Alan Towns.
RESPONDING TO CHANGING NEEDS The evening’s last award – Project of the Year (sponsored by Knightsbridge), recognises ‘a project that demonstrates innovation, creativity, and excellent team-working’. Receiving the award from Knightsbridge Furniture CEO, Alan Towns, for The Oberlands Centre in Guernsey, were Andrew Street of IBI Group, and mental health consultant, Colin Vines. The judges described the new adult acute and CAMHS facility as ‘a sophisticated mix of old and new, providing flexible accommodation for changing needs and demands following the reconfiguration of mental health services’, that had already improved outcomes and reduced stigma. Co-location of inpatient and outpatient services had reduced admission by making therapies, day facilities, and community support more easily accessible. Impressed by the sympathetic treatment of the Georgian Villa, and ‘the integration of old and new to provide light and airy spaces’, the judges remarked that The Oberlands Centre marked ‘a new era for mental health services in Guernsey’.
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