DiMH 2022 PREVIEW


Robin Graham.


Dr Carla Figuereido. Day One Room B


The Day One Room B conference programme will begin with a look, by interior designer, Dalia Shilony, at the interior design of an Arts & Crafts Center ‘for low-functioning autistic people’ which is part of a boarding school for students aged 13-21 in Shimon Village located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in Israel. The speaker is a Graduate of the Department of Interior Design and Architecture at the College of Management, and the holder of an MSc at Tel Aviv University, who has practised in interior design and architecture since 1995. In the next morning slot, Deborah


Payne, a Home manager at L&M Healthcare, will join Louise Harder, a brand communications consultant who has worked with L&M on several projects – including on a pilot study which will be the speakers’ key focus – to address the question, ‘Can five minutes’ activity before a meal time impact on the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia?’


Striking the right balance After a tea / coffee break, Karen Flatt, Studio director and Mental Health lead at IBI Group, will present on ‘Lovely vs ugly’ – ‘asking whether, when creating secure and therapeutic environments, we have gone too far in reducing the risks and overlooked the therapeutic benefits of beauty’. She will explore ‘the historical learning curve’ of mental health architecture and product design, and ask ‘whether safety has become more important than beauty in mental health building design’.


Aesthetics versus safety and security The challenge of balancing aesthetics versus safety will be familiar for many DiMH 2022 attendees. Another ‘balancing act’ for mental healthcare professionals is ensuring that seclusion and de-escalation practices are humane. In an address titled ‘Examining the environmental conditions


Dalia Shilony.


Deborah Payne.


for psychological safety: insight from a study on se-escalation and seclusion’, Professor of Psychology & Mental Health at London South Bank University, Paula Reavey, will present preliminary findings from a qualitative study on how the environment and experiences of restrictive interventions and seclusion impact patient and staff experiences of escalation and de-escalation. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews using photo- production and photo-elicitation with staff and patients within a UK intensive care psychiatric unit. Professor Reavey has published over 100 articles and 10 books, and is the founder of the Design with People in Mind book series, on behalf of the DiMHN.


Improving seclusion facilities In the last Day One Room B pre-lunch session, Ian Tearle, senior Service Line lead, Forensic Services, at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Alexandru Senciuc, a senior architect at Medical Architecture, and John Plum, a Project director at Blu Bulding Consultants, will follow up a presentation given at Design in Mental Health 2019 on a programme to improve the quality of seclusion units across all the Trust’s mental health services, ‘to create a consistent quality of space, and a positive patient experience’. After lunch, Sarah Hughes, CEO of the


Centre for Mental Health, will give her Day One keynote on ‘Designing a mental health system for equality: BetterTogether’.


Mental health at the heart of the community The annual DiMH conference and exhibition always provide a great opportunity to showcase recent, high- profile new-build projects; the best tend to feature excellent collaboration. On this theme, next to present will be


Integrated Programme director at South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, Ian Garlington, STEP General manager at Springfield and Tolworth


The annual DiMH conference and exhibition always provide a great opportunity to showcase recent, high-profile new-build projects; the best tend to feature excellent collaboration


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Karen Flatt.


Paula Reavey.


Estate Partnership, Harriet Gladwell- Philips, and SRM Project director at Sir Robert McAlpine, Simon Allen, discussing ‘Springfield Village – mental health at the heart of the community’. It is hoped that the regeneration of the Springfield University Hospital site in Tooting will ‘reduce the stigma of mental health conditions by integrating the Trust within the community’. The new Springfield Village will incorporate ‘state-of-the-art’ inpatient forensic and non-forensic mental health facilities, including eight new wards with 134 beds, outpatient consulting rooms, office space, retail areas, and plant rooms. The wider project includes over 800 new homes, including 20% affordable housing, alongside community shops and a café, a new care home, and land available for a new school, all adjacent to a 32-acre new public park.


Collaboration key to success In the following session, Programme director, Geoff Neild, associate director of Estates and Facilities, Andy Donoghue, senior Responsible Officer, Andy Harrison, Project Officer and Lived Patient Experience lead, Nick Richards, Clinical Project Manager, Hollie Grief, and deputy director of Practice and Transformation, Becki Priest, all of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will discuss six projects being delivered by the DHcFT Programme Delivery Team – four of them dormitory eradication projects, and the others aimed at ending the inappropriate use of out-of-area PICUs. The Programme includes three new-builds and three ‘major refurbishments’.


A person-centered approach The next session will see Cath Lake, a director at P +HS Architects, and the co-author of the DIMHN’s Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit, use her presentation, ‘New hospital design: a person- centered approach’, to discuss a major redevelopment project at Bradford’s Lynfield Mount Hospital, ‘a typical example of a late 20th century design mental health facility’. Co-presenting with former service-user, Nick Smith, she will explain how engagement with all the Trust’s stakeholders was successfully undertaken ‘within the restrictions of the pandemic’, to ‘ensure that everyone could make a valuable contribution’.


MAY 2022 | THE NETWORK


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