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Jonathan Campbell Vice-Chair


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We’re back! With more visitors, more conference speakers, and more award submissions, our 2022 conference returned to the high of 2019 (pre-COVID), which was in itself a record year. Our exhibition – a place to showcase the latest innovation – attracted many new products this year. A massive thanks to everyone who


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contributed to the DiMH 2022 event in Coventry; we’re a network of people passionate about improving mental healthcare spaces, and we rely on you getting involved. If you’d like to help shape the agenda for 2023, or have a topic you feel needs to be discussed, please email admin@dimhn.org. Personally, the conference standouts


Awards reward excellence and commitment Good outdoor spaces’ benefits in focus A difficult inpatient experience shared


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COVER PICTURE: Anti-barricade bedroom doors with full-door ligature alarm from Safehinge Primera feature at the Skelbrooke PICU at the Doncaster Adult Mental Health Unit. Safehinge Primera is ‘pioneering’ what it dubs ‘a new game-changing door care package’ that includes a five-year robustness guarantee designed to provide peace of mind through two simple assurances.


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for me were the roundtable discussions on Seclusion, which benefitted from the contributions of clinicians, designers, and experts-by-experience – a genuinely inclusive discussion that we hope will produce valuable learnings. Outputs will be published and available in the coming weeks. This roundtable was the first in what we hope will become a regular event around the country, and an important piece of our Community Engagement programme, led by fellow Board member, Trudi Beswick. If you’d like to participate in future events, please reach out to admin@dimhn.org Another notable contribution came


from Nick Smith, who spoke with aching honesty and yet great warmth about his


Journal of the Design in Mental Health Network Listening and empathy key to good design


lived experience. One of Nick’s key messages was to highlight the importance of listening and showing great empathy in design considerations. Active listening helps create psychological safety, and if psychological safety exists, then everyone – staff and service-users – can open up and voice their views and emotions to create healthier relationships all round. Sarah Hughes from the Centre for Mental Health spoke with depth and passion about the inequalities of mental health provision across our society. A study (Morrison Gutman et al 2015) she referred to highlights that children from the poorest 20% of households are four times more likely to suffer serious mental health difficulties than the wealthiest 20%; this is indeed sobering. Proof, if more proof were needed, that the work carried out by everyone in our sector is more important, and more valuable, than ever. Please consider joining us, and lending us


your voice to positively change as many lives as we can. See you soon.


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11 Recognising best practice and innovation 5 News


The first evening of June’s Design in Mental Health 2022 event in Coventry saw 12 Design in Mental Health 2022 Awards presented – recognising excellence in categories ranging from Outside Space of the Year and Concept Product Innovation to Service-User Engagement and Estates and Facilities Team of the Year.


21 A service-user’s view on improving care spaces


Service-users’ lived experience in mental healthcare facilities can provide valuable insights. At June’s DiMH conference, Nick Smith, who spent a lengthy period as an inpatient at Bradford’s Lynfield Mount Hospital, reflected on some of his most challenging times.


26 Creating outdoor spaces for mind and body


Karen Howell, Landscape architect director of Iteriad, a specialist in the design of external environments for both acute and mental healthcare facilities, discusses the important role of good landscape design in the creation of therapeutic mental health facilities.


32 Helping keep vulnerable service-users safer


Rod Foot, Technical Project manager at specialist in door systems, hardware, and washroom accessories for mental healthcare settings, Kingsway Group, discusses the development and launch of the company’s new Kosmos Conscious Monitoring System.


35 Overcoming the barriers to equal access for all


Giving a first day keynote presentation at June’s DiMH 2022 conference, Sarah Hughes, CEO of the Centre for Mental Health, discussed what she argued were some of the key priorities for designing a mental health system that offers equality of access to all, and some of the major barriers that need overcoming to achieve this.


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