DiMH 2022 AWARDS
Around 300 guests attended the DiMH Awards, and the preceding drinks and canapés, in the Premier Lounge of the Coventry Building Society Arena.
just have never been asked’. The entry said: “There are currently over 2000 people with a learning disability/and or autism in NHS-funded inpatient services countrywide awaiting discharge into a new ‘home’. Homes are commonly designed by planners and professionals, and it has sometimes been difficult to reflect individuals’ preferences in this process. As clinicians in this field, we developed a tool, the Safe Home Environment Assessment (SHEA), to support the planning and design process, which considered how the individual could be actively involved, so the home represented their preferences / choices.” Over a year, Diane Chandler and her colleagues worked with Team Springwell, a small group of experts by experience, to develop ‘the beginnings of’ an accessible design toolkit covering many aspects of home design.
Evidence base considered They considered the evidence base around design and wellbeing, and making this accessible, so that individuals can have a say in their home’s look and feel. Their work included developing a paint chart for bedrooms considered ‘calming’, and reviewing a range of ways to support individuals to make choices in a meaningful way, ‘regardless of their
cognitive abilities’. Team Springwell plans developing
the work into a leaflet of ‘top tips’ on different ways everyone can be involved in designing their own homes. As one participant said: “I know exactly what I want my home to look like; I just haven’t ever been asked.”
Clinical Team Award for 2022 The Clinical Team Award was won by Rowan View. The winning entrants, IBI Group and Kier Construction, said: “Individuals requiring secure care require intensive specialist care which integrates two areas of clinical focus – risk reduction and public protection, alongside recovery, integration, and aspiration, bringing unique operational and strategic challenges. Designing mental health hospitals can be constrained by a view that the building is an enabler of the clinical tasks. Mersey Care questioned how can the fixed shape, form, and structure of the environment function with fluidity, energy, and momentum, bringing a therapeutic premium, sparking the commitment to ensure a synergy of design and clinical care.” The entry continued: “Throughout the design stage, clinical objectives and aspirations became the determining factor. Extensive engagement with
patients, families, and staff, identified a range of factors which compromised the delivery and receipt of clinical care. From this, a decision-making framework was developed.
Trauma-informed mental health services “Contemporary mental health services must be trauma-informed – the benefit of the clinical engagement is a building designed to reflect this approach, using light, space, and colour to set emotional tone and shifts between areas of engagement. Rowan View has created the opportunity to implement a new clinical model across the whole system.” Philip Ross and Jonathan Campbell
presented the award to Elaine Wilkinson, Strategic Estates Project manager, and Joey Dunn, senior Nurse, at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Product Innovation The evening’s sixth award – for Product Innovation – went to Pineapple Contracts, for its Seal seating range, ‘specifically designed to reduce risk and maximise hygiene in challenging environments’. The entry explains: “Conventional soft seating products typically feature seams and stitch-lines, which in challenging
Below: Some of the Clinical Team pictured at Rowan View, where ‘throughout the design stage, clinical objectives and aspirations became the determining factor’.
Clinical Team Award
14 AUGUST 2022 | THE NETWORK
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