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DIMH 2020 event has been postponed until June 2021
This year’s Design in Mental Health Conference, Exhibition, and Awards Dinner, originally scheduled for June at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena, but postponed to 16-17 November due to the COVID-19 outbreak, will now not take place in 2020, with the event rescheduled by the DiMHN and event co-organiser, Step Exhibitions, to 9-10 June 2021 at the same venue. Event director, James Lee, said: “Over recent weeks, together with the Design in Mental Health Network, we have been monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on society, and particularly our market. We had naturally been hoping that Design in Mental Health 2020 could take place in November. However, we are cognisant of the health, safety, and wellbeing of everyone at Design in Mental Health, and, equally, are keen to protect the investment and value of exhibitors. Organising an event with social distancing measures, while feasible, is impractical – placing significant restrictions on the event layout, access, and format, and the visitor flow, as well as impacting on stand design, and both exhibitors’ ability to interact with
Leeds CAMHS facility ‘supports
national priorities’ A new CAMHS facility, being constructed by Interserve for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Leeds and Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, is underway on the St Mary’s Hospital site in Armley, Leeds, and will provide 22 inpatient beds, ‘and much-needed improvements and facilities for children and young people across West Yorkshire’.
attendees, and attendees’ interaction with the exhibits.
“We will know more as the coronavirus outbreak and our response to it progresses, but it seems prudent – to protect the value that everyone has invested in Design in Mental Health – to reschedule to place as much distance as possible between the pandemic and the live event. Accordingly, the new dates for the next Design in Mental Health Conference and Exhibition will be 9-10 June 2021, at the Ricoh Arena. All exhibition, delegate, and awards dinner bookings and visitor pre-registrations will be transferred automatically.”
Sliding windows give ‘stunning results’ at £13.5 million Maidstone facility
Secure window provider for medical establishments, Crittall-Fendor, worked closely with the architects throughout the design phase of Cygnet Healthcare’s Cygnet Hospital Maidstone, supplying both its CleanVent and AlphaLine sliding windows for the £13.5 m facility. The low-level secure and rehabilitation
unit, comprising four wards for up to 65 male and female patients, was designed by Tangram Architects. Crittall-Fendor’s CleanVent windows
were supplied as both as inward and outward-opening cleaning variants, depending on their location. AlphaLine sliding windows were also supplied, plus curtain walling, with integrated sliding and top-hung windows to non-patient
areas. Doors have anti-finger trap profiles for safety. David Whitehead, director of Tangram
Architects, said: ‘We worked closely with Crittall-Fendor in this project’s design and delivery. It supplied secure windows designed for challenging environments with an innovative mesh screen detail for the ward environment over three floors.” Dubbing Crittall-Fendor’s specialist products as ‘attractive on price’, David Whitehead explained that the window specialist’s Design Department had worked well with Tangram on earlier mental health projects. He added: “Crittall-Fendor is
innovative and practical, and added value – working closely with us and the cladding sub-contractors during the detail design process in working up fully coordinated construction details to produce stunning results.” CleanVent are high specification sliding security windows, thermally enhanced with an anti-ligature frame and locking mechanism customisable to meet client requirements. AlphaLine windows are more suited to a rehabilitation environment with lower security needs. Crittall-Fendor products have now
been installed in a dozen UK hospitals managed by Cygnet Healthcare.
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The £15 m facility includes two eight- bedded General Adolescent Unit wards, and a six-bedded PICU, plus ‘spacious therapeutic areas’, including a multi- purpose activity room, educational facilities, a family visiting room, courtyards, and a green communal space. There will also be a health-based place of safety in the unit, where young people thought to be in urgent need of care will receive a mental health assessment to ensure they get the most appropriate support.
The design, by architects, Gilling Dod, was informed by in-depth stakeholder and user engagement, involving staff, partners in CAMHS services, young service-users, their carers, and the local community, to understand their needs and how they think the new unit should look and feel. A public information event was held in September 2018 to gain feedback on the initial proposals. Gilling Dod said: “The new unit supports both national and regional priorities in reducing the distance that children, young people, and their families, have to travel to receive specialist mental healthcare.” Work started on site in February 2020, with the demolition of some of the existing St Mary’s buildings. Construction then began in April, with a planned September 2021 opening date.
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