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CAMHS facility a ‘beacon of light’ for recovery
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s ‘state-of-the-art’, purpose-built £8 million mental health facility for young people, ‘The Beacon’, situated on the Glenfield Hospital site in Leicester – which incorporates its own astro-turfed sports pitch for activities ranging from five-a-side games to yoga thanks to a ‘generous donation’ from Leicester City Football Club – has welcomed its first inpatients. Named ‘to represent hope for a brighter future’, the unit was co-designed by staff from LPT’s specialist child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) and young people, and offers a ‘safe, welcoming, and positive inpatient care environment’. It has 15 beds, an increase on the current 10-bed provision, and in future will offer inpatient care for young people with eating disorders – who have previously had to go out of area.
The Beacon is easily accessible by road and public transport, and close to other mental health facilities such as the Bradgate Mental Health Unit, and Langley Ward at the Bennion Centre, which provides inpatient and day care for adults with eating disorders. The CAMHS crisis and home treatment team is also based nearby. Helen Thompson, director of families, young people, and children’s services at LPT, said: “Our vision has been to ensure
Full mortice hinge delivers reduced ligature risk
With ‘pinch points’ an area of concern for mental health facilities – both due to the risk of injury, and increased ligature risk – Intastop has launched the Shrouded Full Mortice Hinge ‘to support increased safety’ and reduce ligature risk.
Designed primarily for use on en-
that the voice of the young person is at the heart of the care provided here, which is why involving them in the building’s look and feel was so important. The Beacon’s location in Leicester, in the centre of the East Midlands, and the fact that we can now offer 15 beds, means more young people can be treated closer to home. The building is surrounded by greenery, and flooded with light. It’s a wonderful environment that will really support recovery.”
The Beacon has individual, en-suite bedrooms, and facilities for Leicester Hospital School, plus sensory rooms, quiet lounge areas, clinic rooms, and an outside garden and sports area, including the astro- turfed sports pitch. Construction was managed by Interserve Construction. The architects were David Morley Architects.
NHS Lothian CAMHS services on the move in Edinburgh
NHS Lothian’s inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are set to move to their new home at the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh this month.
The service is expected to join the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the vast majority of Children’s outpatient services during January, following their successful migration from the ‘old’ Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Sciennes to the new building last summer. Susan Goldsmith, NHS Lothian director of Finance, and executive lead on the Re-provision Project, provided an update at a recent meeting of the NHS Lothian’s Board. She said: “We are really excited to be moving CAMHS into its new, purpose-built home next month. It has been designed carefully with the input of patients and their families, and with their needs in mind. It will provide patients and staff alike with a safe, comfortable, and pleasant environment conducive to high quality treatment and care.”
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NHS Lothian says feedback from staff, patients, and families on the new facility – which has ‘come to life’ in recent months – has been ‘overwhelmingly positive’. Catering outlets, including a shop, are open for staff and visitors to the building, while the rooftop helipad has passed all test flights, and will come into operation once training has been completed. The building is due to be handed over to NHS Lothian at the end of January, when a period of commissioning will begin to install equipment, train staff, and carry out final checks.
Intastop Marketing manager, Lisa Turner, said: “Full mortice hinges are quite popular now, but by ensuring that they are as ligature-proof as possible, we have offered another dimension for en-suite door solutions, quite often a challenging area. The Shrouded Full Mortice Hinge allows users to benefit from increased security, safety, reduction in finger entrapment, and privacy. Typical problems with doors – such as alignment issues and stress distribution – are also alleviated through the innovative design.”
She continued: “The Intastop continuous hinge has proved to reduce maintenance, allowing heavy doors to be safely fitted, as the weight is distributed across the entirety of the hinge. This prevents buckling, which can result in doors dropping and damaging the floor. The new design to the Full Mortice hinge range offers all this, while also helping to reduce ligature points.”
Intastop says the new hinge has undergone rigorous testing, is approved to Adult Medium Secure Standards, and is performance rated to BS EN 1935.
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suite doors, the Shrouded Full Mortice Hinge is a single swing hinge that works using two full-length, paired and interlocking gears, and which ‘generates high strength and a low operating force, delivering easy opening’. It also benefits from a choice of anti-ligature cap, either a domed version, or slanted tip, to assist in reducing ligature opportunities.
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