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Joe Forster President
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Chair/Secretary
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Philip Ross Vice Chair
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Philip Barsby Treasurer
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Professor Paula Reavey Research Lead
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In supportive care environments – such as learning disability, eating disorder, or acquired brain injury support and rehabilitation – promoting confidence and independence, for improved mental wellbeing, is key. Personal hygiene is important, but safety is paramount for service-users’ protection, especially when showering. Horne’s Care shower range (page 5) ‘offers the optimum in safe, inclusive, and supportive design’.
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THE NETWORK | JULY 2020
We will not go back to the way things were – maybe through choice, having experienced working remotely and commuting less. Or we may undergo further restrictions as the pandemic unfolds. We have restructured more rapidly than ever before, starkly reminded how adaptable and responsive our processes and designs need to be. Last month’s DiMH Digital Week rose to the challenge of lockdown, our usual gathering in person postponed. Attendees, presenters, and exhibitors, enthusiastically took the discussion online. We heard about developing projects and products, and our joint testing guidance with BRE led by DiMHN director, Philip Ross (see also pages 11-16). As Alex Caruso, DiMHN international lead, put it: ‘The environment will play an even more important part to complete the design of mental health facilities in future’ and ‘a deeper understanding of the ergonomics of each space is required to improve the resilience of our healthcare facilities to support social distancing’. Teams reported on creatively involving stakeholders. For some, increasing opportunities to contribute has made them more inclusive. Overcoming barriers to engagement remains a DiMHN priority. End-users must be fully involved if our response to the crisis is to innovate. In a webinar led by board member, Paula Reavey, we were cautioned that service-users are greatly over-represented among the 10 per cent of UK adults who have no online access.
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In moving more online, we should not be replacing one form of exclusion with another. Nor should we uncritically accept IT’s limitations, accustomed, as we are, to seeing our on-screen conversation partner disappearing with the error message ‘Joe is having connection problems’. However, the problem is with the product, not the end-user. Openly owning our own limitations would enhance collaboration with our end-users. As a charity and non-profit company, DiMHN has a board of director trustees drawn from the membership. November AGM arrangements are headed by stakeholder lead, Trudi Beswick. Three retire by rotation every year, standing for re-election or bringing their tenure to a close. We aim for experts by experience, as well as designers, clinicians, academics, and industry, to be represented. We have been especially well-served by board members who combine both qualities, having experience as service-users, alongside professional or commercial positions. While nominations remain open for this year’s appointments, you can find information and apply at
www.dimhn.org/ board-nominations-2020, or by contacting the board.
Joe Forster, President, Design in Mental Health Network
5 News 11 Taking some guesswork out of product selection
Until now, believe the DiMHN and BRE, those specifying products for mental healthcare facilities have had no easy way to ensure their fitness for purpose. To address this, they have jointly developed a guide to testing a broad spectrum of products.
18 Powerful precedent for historic NHS site
A close working relationship between Kajima, Sir Robert McAlpine, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, helped unlock the estate modernisation of the Springfield University Hospital site in Wandsworth.
25 ‘Media wall’ technology installed at Rowan View
Recornect Sales director and co-owner, Erik Kuijpers, discusses how the company’s interactive ‘media walls’ will assist the recovery and treatment of service-users at a new medium secure mental health facility, Rowan View, on Merseyside.
29 Perfectionist approach to door development
STJ Projects describes how, working with a partner, it designed, developed, and manufactured, a ‘bespoke’, extremely robust doorset, incorporating vision panels and a new pill and beverage hatch, for a Nottinghamshire Trust.
32 Bespoke misting system met many objectives
A ‘bespoke’ fire misting system at Prospect Park Hospital near Reading was designed to link into its existing smoke detection system, and minimise self-harm or vandalism risks.
34 The role of interactive ‘virtual’ environments
For the past two years, doctoral researcher, Tor Alexander Bruce, has been developing the foundations of a study linked to prototyping in mental healthcare environments, building collaborations across the public and private sectors and in academia.
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