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What happens when the bedroom door breaks beyond repair within a mental health inpatient environment? Research by Safehinge Primera, in collaboration with NHS Trusts and private healthcare organisations, showed that the current replacement process in mental health is far from simple. It found organisations typically wait 8-10 weeks to fit a replacement door and make the bedroom operational again, resulting in the need for patient relocation (often to a private healthcare provider) – at an estimated cost of £750-£1,000 daily. Unfortunately, this scenario occurs fairly frequently - with instances of broken bedroom doors, where a bedroom can no longer operate safely, appearing with 10-25% of doors annually. For healthcare providers operating at capacity, this presents an unwelcome disruption, and substantial financial implications. The rolled-up costs range from £42,000-£70,000 every time a door breaks.


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Research shows the NHS can protect itself from these costs Journal of the Design in Mental Health Network


through two simple considerations: Firstly, suppliers should guarantee the door will remain robust enough not to break, even under sustained service-user damage, for at least five years. Secondly, if a door breaks, no matter the cause, the supplier should replace it within a reasonable time (within 7 days). Safehinge Primera is pioneering these assurances in its unique Door Care Package, an annual service level agreement with a firm contractual commitment to deliver on the two points above.


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If the NHS adopts this approach, it will protect patients from the disruption of being moved to a different care provider due to broken doors, while saving the public at least £197 m on door maintenance costs over five years.


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An international perspective on common issues


The Design in Mental Health Network has recently launched, and highlighted at its 2022 Conference in Coventry, the seventh in its series of Design With People in Mind booklets. The booklets draw


on existing study and research evidence, and published literature, ‘to inform a service- user-centred approach to designing mental healthcare environments’. While previous booklets have focused on topics including the impact of sound and acoustics in mental healthcare settings, the benefits of ‘bringing in nature’, and at the ‘borders and boundaries’ service-users and staff experience, the latest ‘explores international perspectives’ to gain a better sense of how mental healthcare design has developed, and is practised, across the globe. The authors, director and lead for the DiMHN’s Research and Education Workstream, and Professor of Psychology and Mental Health at London South Bank University (LSBU), Paula Reavey, Professor of Health and Organisational Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, Steven Brown, and Graduate Teaching Assistant and Doctoral Student at LSBU, Donna Ciarlo, explain in the introduction to The International Issue that ‘to gain a sense of the evidence across a wide range of countries’, they harnessed Rapid Evidence Assessment – ‘an increasingly well-established technique for collecting, sorting, and evaluating, published evidence’. Drawing on study and real-world evidence / experience from countries including


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Two new furniture ranges launched


Furniture manufacturer, Knightsbridge, launched two new furniture collections, ROK Extreme and MORE, at June’s Design in Mental Health 2022 Conference and Exhibition in Coventry. The first, ROK Extreme – designed


Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Canada, the US, South America, India, Egypt and Singapore, key topics covered include: l The use of locked wards and restrictive practices;


l Opening up spaces and feeling safe; l Designing to make people feel good; l Biophilic architectural design and green spaces;


l Evidence-based design and built for ‘user’ purpose;


l Relationships and social spaces; l Urbanisation and mental healthcare; l Building for the future. The attractively illustrated booklet,


featuring colour photos of a number of well-designed indoor and outdoor mental healthcare spaces in different countries, highlights some of the lessons learned by those designing and operating such buildings through staff and service-users’ personal experience and published studies. The photo shows a courtyard at Foss


Park – a new ‘adult and older adult’ healthcare facility in York designed by P+HS Architects for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust. The International Issue is available to download free to DiMHN members at https://dimhn.org/resources/


in collaboration with the multi-award winning interior designer, Jim Hamilton – comprises an individual chair, two- seater, and three-seater unit. These items incorporate a plywood weighted back, a reinforced frame construction with no visible staples or gaps, and the option of additional weighting. ROK Extreme is available in any upholstery fabric or hide, with the correct fire rating for its intended destination.


Knightsbridge and Jim Hamilton have worked in partnership since 2016, on the original ROK Seating Collection. The second new range, MORE, was designed in-house by Knightsbridge’s Design & Development manager, Catherine Hawcroft. ‘Practical yet stylish’, MORE boasts a Mid-Back, High-Back, and Occasional Chair with supportive arms and a deeper seat. Similar to ROK Extreme, MORE also offers a reinforced frame, no visible staples or gaps, and additional weighting, and is available in any upholstery fabric or hide. Jason Brown, Knightsbridge’s director of Design & Development, said: “It’s been an absolute pleasure working with both Jim Hamilton and Catherine Hawcroft to develop these new collections.”


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