Inpatient accommodation
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was also designed to be flush fitting, to suit the Scandinavian design style, and also to add an important function for mental health settings where increased grip area is required to the staff side of a door. The patient side thumbturn activates the privacy lock, which sits flush to the door face, and is non-institutional in appearance. The door finish is a Birch-effect high-pressure laminate with horizontal wood grain for low stimulus.
Mayfair hardware design and door style The vision panel here was designed to blend into the door as much as possible, while still offering the high strength fascia that underpins all Kingsway products. The long pull handle has an inset cover with matching wood grain to give a sleek finish, while offering an excellent grip area. The patient side thumbturn also has a wood grain insert to de-institutionalise the appearance. The dark, horizontally grained wood-effect high pressure laminate door face sets the tone for the doorset being suitable for environments where patients are treated like guests.
Manhattan hardware design and door style The scalloped design on the vision panel provides art deco design nuances, and gives the classical appearance that summarises the Manhattan. The sloping scalloped pull handle provides an elegant, yet anti-ligature solution for the corridor side. The patient side thumbturn also has art deco detailing to complete the range. The walnut high-pressure laminate door
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facings exude warmth, and set the tone for an environment that supports recovery.
PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL FEEDBACK – ‘THE ALL-TOO-OFTEN FORGOTTEN STEP’ As thought-leaders in anti-ligature product design, Kingsway Group uses its own Design Review Panel process to evaluate new designs to gain professional clinical and design input to ensure that the products are suitable for the environments they are proposed to be used in. With this in mind Kingsway Group conducted a survey at the NAPICU (National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care & Low Secure Units) annual conference in September this year to evaluate the Signature door hardware ranges and design – the feedback was as follows: l Question: Do you think that hotel-like doors design such as the Signature range would have a positive effect on patient behaviour?
l Result: ‘Yes’ from 100% of the clinical staff surveyed.
l Comments: ‘Yes – makes a relaxed environment.’ ‘Yes – doesn’t look like a prison – patient would feel like they want to stay.’ ‘Yes – more therapeutic.’
The future of design – the complete environment While working on many different mental health projects, Kingsway Group noticed that the design teams faced the challenge of trying to select components to provide a co-ordinated
overall room design. As a company we wanted to provide an answer to this challenge, so we commissioned Gilling Dod Interiors, as leading mental health designers, to create entire room spaces based on the Signature design concepts and give clarity to the care pathways, as Laura Grayken, senior interior designer at Gilling Dod Interiors, explains below.
FOCUS ON PATHWAY-SPECIFIC DESIGN – THE GILLING DOD STANDPOINT
“Gilling Dod Interiors has always placed a strong focus on designing high quality healing environments, but more recently our emphasis has been placed firmly on pathway specific design, says Laura Grayken. “By ensuring that we fully appreciate the clinical needs of varying mental health pathways, and undergoing in- depth engagement with CAMHS, Perinatal, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) service-users (among others), we are able to specifically tailor exemplar spaces to suit the individual, and not simply ‘rest on the standard’. Published guidance and standardisation helps us to create solid, tried and tested foundations for internal layouts – but there is no replacement for truly putting the service-user at the heart of the design development, with extensive, robust engagement processes.
INTERNAL SPACES’ IMPACT “Having worked in the mental healthcare sector on a wide variety of different environments, and by working closely with clinical professionals and
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