DiMH 2022 PREVIEW
App-based alternative to ‘traditional’ ligature risk assessments David Gibson, Compliance and Governance manager at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, will then discuss the development of an ‘app-based technological and sustainable alternative to traditional ligature risk assessments (LRAs)’. The LRA App was purpose built within the Office365 platform ‘from the ground up’, ‘in house’, using Kaisen methodologies to improve the LRA process.
New low and medium secure guidance in HBN Next, Rosemary Jenssen – who has over 20 years’ experience delivering exemplar award-winning mental healthcare projects – will discuss the recent development of the new Health Building Note, HBN 03:04, Low and Medium Secure Guidance for both Adults, and Children and Young People. Closing the Day One Room B programme, Sean Taylor, a Consultant at BRE with a background in materials engineering, will discuss the Informed Choices product testing and certification scheme jointly developed by the BRE and the DiMHN, focusing on the three main segments of testing – reduced ligature, robustness, and anti-barricade. Day One of the conference will be rounded off with the presentation of the Design in Mental Health 2022 Awards in the Premier Lounge.
Day Two Room A
Drive towards more sustainable infrastructure Following a morning keynote, (speaker TBC), Day Two’s Room A programme will commence with a look by architect and Healthcare Design director at Wates, Bonnie Chu, at ‘Destination Net Zero: Transforming NHS estates into the hospitals of tomorrow’. She will focus on how – led by Wates Group, alongside a multidisciplinary team of built environment specialists including Arup and HKS Architects – the Decarbonising Health Estates Partnership (DHEP), launched last October, will ‘work to drive forward sustainability within hospital infrastructure, focusing on existing NHS estates’. DHEP will ‘use its expertise to develop bespoke
solutions for NHS Trusts, helping them find cost-effective solutions to reduce Scope 1 and 3 emissions in infrastructure’.
Balancing comfort and carbon reduction Following Bonnie Chu, in a presentation titled ‘A service-user approach to zero carbon’, Mark Richardson, head of Sustainability and Innovation, and Naddy Parperi, Healthcare partner, at engineering partnership, TB+A, will consider the importance of balancing good room environmental conditions in mental healthcare facilities with the need to cut carbon carbon emissions and energy use in the drive toward Net Zero.
A case study with learning opportunities After tea / coffee, in a presentation titled ‘Elgin and Appin Wards, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow – Case Study’, Andrew Baillie, assistant head of Capital Planning at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, will discuss the design and construction of two recently opened new-build 20-bed units for Adult Acute and Older Adults with functional mental health issues respectively on the Stobhill Hospital Estate in Glagsow. (The Network – April 2021). The speaker’s summary says: “Built on the 1904 Poor Law Hospital campus adjacent to Listed 120-year-old and new award-winning acute buildings, this case study provides many excellent learning opportunities, including engagement process and collaboration; urban to detail design; sustainability and Net Zero design, and the logistics of construction on a challenging site. There is also learning on the commonalities and differences for the design and operational services for these two distinct mental health groups.”
North America’s newest mental health hospital Next to speak, in an address titled ‘A revolutionary 150-year-old vision for mental healthcare inspires the design of the newest mental health hospital in North America’, will be Timothy Rommel, Principal, Mental / Behavioural Health practice leader, CannonDesign, Harsh Trivedi, President and CEO at Sheppard Pratt, and Kent Muirhead, Design Principal, CannonDesign. They will discuss the construction of a new campus which includes an 85-bed inpatient hospital, day hospital programmes, a crisis treatment
centre, and educational programmes, near Washington D.C. Described as ‘revolutionary in its design’, the new hospital opened last August. Stephen Parker, a Behavioural Health planner at Stantec, will then present on ‘Returning home: advancements in veteran mental health’. As part of the US’s largest healthcare system, with the greatest number of mental health patients, the ‘VA’ system has ‘a substantial impact upon the mental health design landscape’. The speaker will include project case studies ‘highlighting emerging design trends that evolve and elevate veteran mental health’. He has served a diverse client base, including the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, MedStar Health, Kaiser Permanente, and Trillium Healthworks. After lunch, Project curators at arts and mental health charity, Hospital Rooms, Molly Bonnell ansd Siphiwe Mnguni, will give an afternoon keynote titled ‘Rebulding recovery – Springfield Hospital and Hospital Rooms’.
Integrating mental health and wellbeing in the schools curriculum Oisin Bishenden (CEO & Education adviser) and Phil Tottman (founder and development manager) from Book of Beasties will then explain how, since winning the DiMH Concept Product Innovation Award 2019 for their eponymous psychologist-endorsed and university-accredited mental wellness card game, the business has ‘pivoted its approach’ to integrating mental health and wellbeing across the curriculum in schools, ‘to match the hybrid school/home learning model’. Specifically, they will focus on the ‘unique learning kits’ the company has successfully deployed, which have been downloaded over 10,000 times – ‘helping teachers and parents with the vital issue of wellbeing in lockdown’.
Artist’s ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ The penultimate Day Two Room A presentation will see David Parkin, an artist who co-founded arts organisation, MBD, after graduating at Lancaster University in 1997, present. After ‘going solo’ in 2012, he has recorded a clinical depression concept album which he turned into a show, written a children’s book, which he turned into a musical, and penned a
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