DiMH 2022 AWARDS


Service-users told the Trust they wanted Red Kite View ‘to feel like a home-from-home, or even like a hotel, and not clinical like a hospital’.


Project of the Year – New-Build UK


scheme, explained: “The redevelopment of an existing site near Preston is for a proposed new Rehabilitation service for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, with the care model set to focus on empowering service-users to gain or recover their confidence and skills, promoting independence and autonomy. The environment is fundamental in ensuring the care model can be at its most effective.” The new Centre has 28 en-suite


bedrooms, and, being a ground floor facility, offers easy access to the main street and community facilities. It has been designed with a ‘welcoming, warm, and non-clinical feel’, with defined female and male en-suite bedroom areas, quiet lounges with open shared spaces, and private garden and therapy areas, with input from ‘Grow Your Own’, who will work with service-users to utilise the garden areas to grow plants and produce. There is a spacious kitchen for service-users to cook all their own meals with staff support, and a separate glazed dining room with views over, and access to, the kitchen therapy courtyard.


Outside agencies’ involvement The project evolved throughout the design and construction period, with clinical and design teams focusing on the patient experience, and outside agencies invited in to encourage exploration of new ideas. A key goal was ensuring that patients are encouraged to leave the building to access services in the community. Philip Ross and Jonathan Campbell presented the award to David Simmons, Senior Associate partner, and James Halsall, Associate, at FWP.


Female older people’s ward ‘refurb’ recognised Highly Commended was a project to refurbish the Ramsbottom Ward, a female older people’s ward in Bury, operated by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, to eradicate the multi-bed ward areas, and create single bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. The design concept included modernising the environment using design techniques that are ‘a bit different and visually stimulating’. These have ‘uplifted the environment’, and included using


various types of wall art and wallpaper, laminate on the anti-barricade doors to give the feel of a traditional door, colour coding the rooms, with matching Altro Whiterock cladding in the showers, and incorporating bedroom feature wall colours and feature lighting. With value engineering, and savings from re-using existing furniture, there are now a new staff room, sensory room, assisted bathroom, doctor’s bedroom, and a new garden – with wonder path, seating, and sensory planting.


Project of the Year – New-Build UK Sponsored by CAD21, this award was won by Gilling Dod Architects for Red Kite View, a new £20 m inpatient service serving the young people of West Yorkshire, which expanded from ‘a small and limited’ eight-bed unit in an adapted building, to a purpose-built facility with 22 en-suite bedrooms. The project is part of the NHS’s ‘Transforming Care Agenda’ to address a lack of CAMHS beds in Northern England.


Project of the Year – New-Build International


Artworks by three different artists have been


integrated in the public common areas, the forensic patient courtyard, and the children’s playground, at the Skejby Psychiatric Centre in Aarhus in Denmark.


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Drawing on UK and international best practice The unit includes 16 general adolescent beds and 6 PICU beds for young people with severe and complex mental health difficulties – including eating disorders. It draws on UK and international best practice, including lessons from other CAMHS units. Gilling Dod says it is ‘one of the first of a new generation of UK hospitals that will be able to operate with Net Zero carbon as the national grid de-carbonises’ – through the use of air-source heat pumps, and it delivers a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating. Service-users told the Trust they wanted Red Kite View ‘to feel like a home-from-home, or even like a hotel, and not clinical like a hospital’, also emphasising nature’s importance to wellbeing and recovery. Gilling Dod designed the unit ‘to feel just like that’, and to ‘bring the outside in where we could, through space, natural light, and some incredible artwork’. The architects said: “The building design is based on the concept of a meandering river running through a


AUGUST 2022 | THE NETWORK


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