DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH 2023


Dan Burningham.


Andrea Harman.


Her presentation will cover some of the technical engagement feedback summary, and explain the design differentiation between services and ‘what good looks like’, as well as the ‘next steps’.


Listening to user groups Listening to user groups in designing today’s mental healthcare facilities is acknowledged to be vital, and in a session from Floyd Slaski Architects on facility design for service-users with autism, some of the key means of engaging with autistic patients and their families to develop an environment suitable for their recovery will be discussed. The importance of service-user input will also be echoed in the presentation from Mark Richards and Naddy Parperi from Troup Bywaters + Anders, on the input of those with lived experience into methods of carbon reduction in treatment settings, and the impact of environmental conditions within service-users’ rooms on their well-being, health, and recovery. Those with lived experience now often also become those that ask the questions in facility design, and this is certainly the case with Jo Baudin, an architect with lived experience who, as a Lived Experience Advisor, will give insight into the selection of art and furniture, and spatial planning, in live mental healthcare facility projects in South West London.


Single and multi-storey accommodation In a presentation titled ‘Challenging assumptions: making a success of multi-storey mental health’, Mark Nugent of Medical Architecture will review the potential implications if guidance contained in HBN 03-01: Adult mental health units: planning and design, recommending that ward accommodation should be at ground floor level, is always taken at face value. He will also discuss some of the ‘common challenges’ associated with multi-storey mental health accommodation, such as autonomy and access to outdoor space, safety and security, and staffing models. Danielle Barnard from Arcadis IBI Group, meanwhile, will consider how we can provide therapeutic, healing environments ‘amid the noise, chaos, and commotion of urban settings’, while still embedding the benefits of a connection with nature, and meeting key clinical requirements.


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Nick Smith.


Raf Hamaizia.


A look at work in North America In a session looking at some of the ongoing work to tackle what they dub the ‘evolving mental health crisis’ in North America, Stephen Parker and Jon Sell from Stantec will discuss a new approach to mental health treatment design in the US, with ‘high-functioning’ standalone crisis response centres employing an EmPATH model of care, where treatment is in ‘a calming living-room style setting’, with appropriate artwork and natural light, designed with the aim of reducing admissions and length of stay. Andrea Harman from Saint-Gobain Ecophon will highlight how acoustics are in important aspect of the new BSI guidance document, PAS 6463: Design for the mind (Neurodiversity and the bult environment), which addresses ways to make spaces accessible and inclusive for people with differences in sensory processing. These may include people assessed as neurodivergent, those with a brain injury, or those with a neurodegenerative health condition. Richard Mazuch and Lynn Lindley from IBI Group will consider designing for neurodiversity, including via a look at some of the ‘enhanced abilities and extraordinary skillsets’ of this group.


A Person-Centred approach The Person-Centred approach to facility design will be explained by Jaime Bishop from Fleet Architects, who will highlight the benefits of seeking service-users’ design opinions in the difficult job of retrofitting an existing building so that it is fit for purpose (in this case, a CAMHS


Richard Mazuch.


Emma Sithole.


unit within a dilapidated building). Rachel McDade from Currie and Brown will explain how changes in the environment made in a treatment facility for those with eating disorders had a significant positive impact on service-user behaviour and well- being. The importance of access to nature to both aiding healing, and reducing stay lengths in mental healthcare facilities, is well-recognised, and accordingly, Karen Howell and Matt Speight from Iteriad will focus on the important role of good landscape design in creating therapeutic care and treatment facilities.


Service-user input Service-users will feature in the conference programme in several sessions, and on this topic, Dr Stephen Dye, a Consultant Psychiatrist at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, who is also assistant Editor at the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, and Bernard J Fox, director of Patient Experience at NAPICU, will deliver a session titled ‘Physical environments of PICUs from the patient perspective’. Lived experience expert, Nick Smith,


will explore ‘multicultural approaches to mental health facility design’, and DiMHN Chief Executive, Hannah Chamberlain, will lead a Lived Experience session in which Raf Hamaizia, Lived Experience lead for Cygnet Healthcare, and Emma Sithole, CEO of The Recovery Foundation, will talk about their experience of meaningful co-production, what facilitates it, and how to maximise its impact in the built environment.


Clinical and operational learning Clinical and Operational Learning will be covered in an hour-long session by the team from Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, discussing how a group of stakeholders – clinical staff, service-users, architects, and operational leaders – came together to collaborate on the design of a CAMHS PICU in Poole. The focus of this session will be on relating the design specifically to the PICU clinical model and the patient experience. Taryn Volante, Occupational Therapy


For NHS estates and facilities personnel, the exhibition is an essential part of staying up to date with the latest innovations for the sector.


head, Acute & Urgent Care, at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, will pick up on the theme presented on elsewhere about the needs of patients with autism or learning difficulties, and the optimal conditions in treatment settings for them – in terms of sensory stimuli, or


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