DiMH 2022 AWARDS
Concept Product Innovation
and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – both had this issue at the top of their ligature risk reduction agendas, and provided invaluable insights into making this the safest dispenser currently available.”
Safehinge Primera’s Older people’s door with full-door ligature alarm.
also working with the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, developing a specialised six-week wellbeing programme for pupils. He has expanded his mental health support for patients with CCG help, and plans setting up a six-week programme of CBT workshops to help patients newly diagnosed with anxiety or depression. As an artist, he uses raw materials, paint, and texture, ‘to create unique conceptual dimensional art’, and is also working on a mental health and wellbeing television series, ‘Mindfulness Minutes’, incorporating ‘bite-sized’ tutorial videos. Recovering from a serious car crash and a friend’s death in 2019 spurred him ‘to do even more to help support people with mental health and resilience’.
Concept Product Innovation This year’s Award for Concept Product Innovation was won by Safehinge Primera, for its ‘Older people’s door with full- door ligature alarm’. The company said: “Familiarity is a crucial ingredient for recovery in any mental health environment, particularly within older people’s inpatient care. We’ve developed a concept door that looks and functions like one you’d find
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust’s new North View development, a 150-bed inpatient mental health facility for adult acute and older adult service-users at North Manchester General Hospital.
within your home, but incorporates the world’s only full-door ligature alarm system – turning the entire door into a weighing scale, and meaning a ligature attempt will be picked up anywhere on the door, with clinical staff immediately alerted.” Staff can monitor activity using the ‘live status’ monitoring system. The full-door alarm has no visible hardware except a small panel on the side of the door. The award was presented to Director, Philip Ross, and Product Design engineers, Seonaid Nimmo and Gus Thomas of Safehinge Primera, by DiMHN Vice-Chair, Jonathan Campbell.
Dispenser ‘born’ from discussion with mental health Trusts Balco Global was Highly Commended for its Balco Global soft dispenser – ‘a new toilet tissue and hand towel dispenser which cannot be ligatured off or weaponised’, which Balco says ‘will be more cost-effective than other available options’. Balco said: “There is very little available which is anti-ligature or reduced ligature where the breakaway part doesn’t increase the weapons risk. We engaged regularly with teams from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Service-User Engagement Sponsored by Safehinge Primera, the evening’s fourth award – for Service-User Engagement – went to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust’s new North View development (formerly known as Park House), a 150-bed inpatient mental health facility for adult acute and older adult service-users, designed by Gilling Dod, at North Manchester General Hospital. The Trust explained: “Service-users have provided a critical contribution to the new North View scheme, which will deliver a new, state-of-the art, inpatient mental health facility by mid-2024. Working with the Project Team and appointed technical specialists via many of the project’s 180 engagement sessions, service-users have significantly enhanced every aspect of the design process. Their influence is evident in the design of the on- and off-ward spaces, adjacencies, and locations.” While COVID-19 ‘limited traditional user engagement’, Microsoft Teams meetings enabled current and past service-user and carer participation in meetings, online polls, and design workshops, while a virtual reality hub allowed service-users to ‘walk around’ the new building, and a ‘mock’ bedroom ‘increased understanding, and elicited valuable comments on layout, features, and use’. Emma Harrison of Safehinge Primera presented the award to Deborah Goodman, Associate director of Operations at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, and a sizeable Trust team. Following recent staff and service- user engagement, a new name for the inpatient facility has been chosen – North View.
‘I know what I like, but have never been asked’ Highly Commended was Lead occupational therapist Diane Chandler of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, for her entry, ‘I know what I like, I
Service-User Engagement
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