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Preparations at Broadmoor to move from ‘old’ to ‘new’
Nature’s therapeutic benefits outlined
With West London NHS Trust having taken formal possession of the new Broadmoor Hospital from Kier in early May, the Trust says work is ongoing with the preparations to transfer patients currently being cared for in Britain’s oldest high secure psychiatric hospital to its ‘state-of-the-art’ replacement. Designed by Oxford Architects and LDA Design, the new Broadmoor Hospital has 16 wards and 234 beds. Carolyn Regan, the Trust’s chief executive, said as the Trust took over the new buildings: “This is a critical step towards the delivery of significant improvements to the way we are able to care for patients in Broadmoor Hospital. This move – from a 150-year-old hospital to one purpose built to provide a safe, therapeutic environment for the delivery of 21st century care – focuses on
hope and recovery, and the Trust’s commitment to supporting patients to take a more active role in their care.” Features of the new hospital – located in the current grounds to the west of the existing buildings – include spacious wards which maximise the use of natural light, clear sightlines, and a layout designed to enable the supervised movement of patients. In preparation for patients moving in, work is continuing to train hospital staff, transfer services, complete the hospital grounds, and install new equipment. In parallel with the move, the Trust says it will also be modernising the way it communicates with the local community – by decommissioning the remaining sirens and replacing them with the Thames Valley Alert system.
Bartlett Institute launches ‘unique’ Healthcare Facilities MSc
UCL’s Bartlett Real Estate Institute (BREI) in London is launching a ‘unique’ MSc programme in Healthcare Facilities that will explore how the physical environment affects healthcare. The Healthcare Facilities
MSc, reportedly the UK’s first of its kind, will consider the challenges facing healthcare real estate provision and operation, and provide healthcare and built environment professionals with the knowledge to plan, design, and manage facilities. Those running the course say it will help participants prepare for a rewarding career in sectors such as healthcare planning, architecture, or construction, or in the capital/estates and facilities departments of healthcare services. Course director, Dr Evangelia
Chrysikou (pictured), said the programme would influence the future of healthcare design. She explained: “It provides students with practical skills highly sought after by employers in the real estate, engineering, architecture, healthcare architecture, medical planning, healthcare facilities
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management, and construction fields. “Participants will gain an integrated perspective of all the components that constitute systemic, sustainable, and successful healthcare facilities.” The programme will be
based at the Bartlett Real Estate Institute’s new teaching and research space at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
Participants will have access to expert invited speakers from the built environment professions – including architecture, planning, interior design, project management, facility and estate management, project and real estate management, and education experts. Enrolment is open now. For more
information, visit
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ bartlett/real-estate/study The Bartlett Real Estate Institute (BREI), part of UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, is ‘a new global institute that is re-thinking the traditional view of real estate’. It offers MSc programmes and short courses, and undertakes research that evaluates real estate within its wider societal, economic, and environmental context.
JULY 2019 | THE NETWORK
The Nature Issue, the fourth in a series of ‘Design with People in Mind’ booklets published by the Design in Mental Health Network to date, takes a broad- ranging look at the ‘multi-sensorial’ therapeutic benefits of nature on the wellbeing and recovery of those with a range of mental healthcare issues. Once again co-authored by Paula Reavey, Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University (LSBU) and lead of the DiMHN’s Research and Education workstream, and Katharine Harding, an associate at Conran and Partners and doctoral researcher at LSBU, the guide is based on ‘a summary of evidence’, and considers the way in which nature impacts on how people behave, ‘contributing to the overall atmosphere and management of healthcare environments’. While acknowledging that space and funding constraints can preclude provision of large outdoor areas for service-users and staff in some mental healthcare settings, the booklet’s introduction says that evidence suggests ‘access to even small amounts of nature’ can reduce stress and aggression for many, which can in turn increase safety, ‘and perhaps facilitate less risk-averse practices’. The authors say the ‘biophilic position’ on recovery ‘further emphasises the importance of connecting the individual with nature’, stressing that ‘much can be done to encourage feelings of relaxation, positive mood, physical wellbeing, and a greater sense of connection with others, through natural environments’. They describe the booklet as ‘an approachable way to learn about the relevant evidence’.
Topics covered in an informative, attractively illustrated publication include: l Nature and vitality; l Therapeutic nature; l The nature of trees; l Active in nature; l Wild in nature; l Healing with nature; l Walking in nature; l The nature of water; l Designing with nature; l A sense of nature.
©West London NHS Trust
©Colin Davison
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