DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH AWARDS 2019 Concept Product Innovation of the Year Award


Tom Dryland (second from left) and Phil Tottman, both directors and developers at Book of Beasties, received the Concept Product Innovation of the Year Award for the company’s ‘Book of Beasties: The Mental Wellness Card game’, from The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie (far left).


works in a similar way to music – slower rhythms are calming, and faster ones help you feel focused. doppel applies research in psychology and neuroscience which show how humans respond intuitively and naturally to different rhythms.” Results showing doppel’s calming effect have been published in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Scientific Reports. In a trial, its use ‘had a tangible and measurable calming effect across both physiological and psychological levels’. doppel works with a companion ‘app’.


Concept Product Innovation The next award, the Concept Product Innovation of the Year Award, was presented by The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, to Tom Dryland and Phil Tottman, both directors and developers at Book of Beasties, for their ‘Book of Beasties: The Mental Wellness Card game’ – a ‘psychologist-endorsed’ card game for children and young people, ‘developed to inspire positive discussion about mental ill-health and wellbeing’. The entry said: ‘The aim is to inspire the conversation, normalise the subject, and make it less daunting when experiencing difficulties’. Dubbed a ‘revolutionary tool that makes it easier for educators to initiate positive conversation with and between students


about their thoughts, feelings, and fears, and the associated behaviours’, this winning version of Book of Beasties ‘focuses on the features most commonly associated with depression, anxiety, and the prominent symptoms that fall under these categories’. Each ‘Beastie’ displays different features, which may be associated with these conditions, with relevant activities and exercises to help. The game is accompanied by a guide and lesson plan for teachers or carers. The product’s developers said: “We don’t claim that Book of Beasties will be a cure for mental ill health, but hope it will reinforce the reality of its existence, and build understanding and empathy, and ideas, that can help manage these symptoms.” The judges said this ‘excellent concept’ ‘blew all the other entries in the category out of the water’.


Estates & Facilities Team


The evening’s third award, for Estates & Facilities Team of the Year, sponsored by Kingsway Group, went to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust – for the successful refurbishment and adaptation of underutilised space at Forest House in Oldham to accommodate a number of services. The ground floor of Forest House had been largely unused for over 10 years,


Estates & Facilities Team of the Year Award


and was generally perceived as a space comparable to 1970s NHS estate. The accommodation’s location was within the heart of a mental health hospital, and with investment ‘had vast potential’. The Trust explained: “Over the years numerous feasibility schemes were presented, but the space was not developed, due to a lack of finance.” In summer 2018 the Pennine Care Estates Department recognised an opportunity to sell a premises in Oldham which would generate a capital receipt. Simultaneously, a ‘visionary service manager’ aspired for two existing mental health services to merge into a single location, and an opportunity arose to relocate the Trust’s Medical Electronics Management Team, who were seeking a new base.


The resulting refurbishment ‘helped bring a high profile but unused building back to life’, with a number of different but complimentary services co-locating, funded via a capital receipt, ‘topped up’ with the Trust’s own existing capital. The Trust said: “The final design provides highly flexible layouts, with shared receptions, entrances, toilets, and meeting space.” Within the ‘relatively small footprint’ the services accommodated include Psychology, Philological Medicine, Safe Haven for out-of-hours crisis, Medical


Richard Walker, director, Capital Investment & Estate Services, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (second from right), with (from left) the Trust’s Capital Design officer, Stephen Welch, and head of Capital Projects & Design, David Lees, received the Estates & Facilities Team Award 2019 from Erion Osmanai (centre) of the Kingsway Group – for the successful refurbishment and adaptation of underutilised space at Forest House in Oldham.


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