2022 DiMHN AGM
The DiMHN’s Chair, Philip Ross, said: “2022 witnessed our first full conference and exhibition since COVID, and we didn’t just return to pre- pandemic levels, but actually set new records of attendance for both.”
Main workstream costs Phil Barsby explained that the financial year’s main workstream costs had been for research development, and printing of the international publication, adding that the other workstreams, such as Testing and Innovation, were being continued into 2022/ 2023. The DiMHN’s full draft accounts were now available (to obtain these, email Chloe Ogdin, at admin@
jdstanburyconsultancy.co.uk). Philip Ross explained that the growing surplus had allowed a cash reserve, and that as a charity, DiMHN needed to spend this, which it hoped to do once a new CEO had started. The Treasurer’s Report was then proposed and unanimously accepted.
Community Engagement Next to report was Caudwell Children CEO, Trudi Beswick, who leads the DiMHN’s Community Engagement Workstream. Having introduced herself, she began by saying how much of a privilege it had been to serve another year as a DiMHN Trustee, and lead on the Community Engagement Workstream. She said: “I am delighted that the Workstream remains a priority for our Board and members. The relevance and importance to our members of community engagement was highlighted at the successful conference workshops, where diverse groups of stakeholders were invited to take part in structured consultations under the theme of ‘seclusion rooms’.” She thanked particularly several DiMHN
Board members, experts-by-experience, David Parkin and Nick Smith, and her colleagues from Caudwell Children, Ben Sutcliffe and Louise Joy-Johnson, for their ‘guidance, input, and support’ in facilitating the well-attended focus groups. Such had been the success of the first two events that the Workstream was now planning a minimum of four more throughout 2023 in its continued efforts to promote stakeholder engagement best practice, ‘while also discussing the most
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Treasurer, Phil Barsby, presented the draft accounts, which were subsequently signed off at the next DiMHN Board meeting in December.
Caudwell Children CEO, Trudi Beswick, who leads the DiMHN’s Community Engagement Workstream, said: “The relevance and importance to our members of community engagement was highlighted at the successful conference workshops.”
important topics affecting our members’. Trudi Beswick had also ‘been honoured’ to be among the judges for the Design in Mental Health Network’s 2022 Awards, which she said had received ‘numerous outstanding entries’ in each category. She said: “I am confident that with the ever-increasing interaction we are now able to enjoy, in 2023 we will further our efforts to actively engage with our members and the wider Design in Mental Health community, and continue to serve as an accessible and indispensable industry resource.” The Workstream was now working with Step Exhibitions on next year’s DiMHN conference event, and looking at the workshops and presentations that had already been submitted. Trudi Beswick said she was looking forward to ‘an exciting 2023’. The Community Engagement Workstream Report was then proposed and unanimously accepted.
Testing and Innovation Philip Ross then reported on the work of the Testing and Innovation Workstream, explaining that during the 12 months in question, the DiMHN had continued its progress with the joint testing collaboration with the Building Research Establishment (BRE), and had been working through the final details of the testing and certification scheme with it, most recently signing off templates for the certificates. It had also been agreed that the BRE website would be the host location for final product certification, with this then ‘being mirrored’ on the DiMHN website. He explained: “Several manufacturers have now completed testing of their products, and are now working through the certification steps, which include a Factory Production Control (FPC) audit, making sure that what people test is actually reproducible and repeatable, so that the products that you buy, with the specification, have the right assurances that they are as tested.”
Certificated products online Philip Ross said he hoped all would start to see certificated products online by the end of 2022, providing information on the tested products’ ligature and robustness performance, and ‘enabling more informed choices to be made’, both on new-build and refurbishment projects. He added: “We also reached out to our network to ask some of the leading voices in specification if they would encourage manufacturers to invest in product testing, ensuring that they take the responsible action to evidence their safety claims.” A number of organisations had already
taken that pledge – including Gilling Dod, NHS Highland, IBI, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Tilbury Douglas, Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, VINCI, P+HS Architects, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, Medical Architecture, and CTD Architects. It was hoped all of these organisations would refer to the standards whenever they were in contact with a manufacturer in the future.
‘User-friendly guide’ The Workstream was also in the process of creating ‘a user-friendly guide’ (reduced from 92 pages to 12) on using the ‘Informed Choices’ scheme, covering the main benefits of having product claims independently tested and verified, and how to compare different products and use the performance grades captured when specifying products for, and designing, mental health environments. It was hoped that this ‘simplified and consolidated’ version of the existing test document would be ready for launch by the end of 2022, with a series of webinars planned, which would start to bring the new testing guidance ‘to life’ via real- life conversations with people actually specifying different products. The report was proposed and unanimously accepted.
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