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Viewssought onnew£64m Glan Clwyd inpatient unit
Plans for a new inpatient mental health unit in Denbighshire have gone on display to the public.
They are being invited to share their feedback on Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s plans for the new 63-bed unit within the grounds of Glan Clwyd Hospital, before their submission to Denbighshire County Council in October. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Board has continued work with partners, BAM Construction and Gleeds, on the inpatient unit’s development. Replacing the care currently provided at the hospital’s Ablett Unit, the new facility, at the rear of the hospital, will provide acute inpatient mental health care to adults from Conwy, Denbighshire and parts of Flintshire, ‘in a modern building with more mental health beds and significantly improved staff and patient facilities’.
Plans include the introduction of a dedicated new Dementia Assessment Unit, ‘incorporating the latest evidence on dementia-supportive environments’, to replace the service currently provided at the Bryn Hesketh Unit in Colwyn Bay. It will also feature a dedicated crisis assessment area.
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conducted significant engagement with people who use our services, their loved ones, our own staff, and those from partner organisations, to help inform these exciting plans. This is a new chapter for mental healthcare in central North Wales, and we want local people to have a sense of pride in the building and the care delivered from it.
standards, the development will support the Welsh Government’s response to the climate emergency. Under the plans, subject to planning permission from Denbighshire County Council and funding approval from the Welsh Government, the new building will be completed by 2024, and will cost an estimated £64 m. Jill Timmins, Programme Director for the Ablett Unit Redevelopment, said: “Over the past 12 months we have
“We’re keen to hear feedback from people across Conwy, Denbighshire, and Flintshire, and would encourage them to visit the Health Board website to view the plans and let us know what they think.” The plans have been welcomed by North Wales mental health service-user and carer involvement organisation, Caniad, which has played a key role in the design process. Peter Williams from Caniad said: “Caniad service-users and carers have been actively involved in the design process for the new building, and we are all very excited about the benefits that the new unit will deliver for patients and staff.”
CIC launches Design Quality Indicator for Health 2
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has launched an updated version of its design quality evaluation tool, the Design Quality Indicator for Health 2 (DQIfH2), which it says ‘will contribute to improved design, long-term functionality, and sustainability’, of future hospital new-build and major adaption and refurbishment projects. This latest version enables the DQIfH2 to be used by healthcare organisations and their key stakeholders to engage earlier in the consultation and design process for all types of healthcare buildings. The tool has been updated to perform better with the latest NHS England & Improvement requirements aligned to the current business case process, while being adaptable for use on accelerated project programmes. DQIfH2 is now designed to become the vehicle for not only design appraisal, but also staged review of other NHS estates assurances processes covering impact on the procurement process at an early stage, e.g. carbon reduction and sustainability, infection prevention and control, fire safety, planning, and BIM etc. The CIC’s original Design Quality Indicator, launched in 2002, is a process
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for Health as the default design quality evaluation tool for all healthcare projects.
for evaluating and improving the design and construction of any type of new building, and the refurbishment of existing ones, with various sector specialisms. The 2002 DQI provided staged review by stakeholders of a project’s design development, from concept to completion, consistent with RIBA and other industry standards, and in 2008 was adopted by the Department of Health as the Achieving Excellence Design Evaluation Toolkit (AEDET). In 2010 the DH commissioned the first DQI
DQIfH2 has been designed to follow the NHS’s business case process through Strategic Outline Case (SOC), Outline Business Case (OBC), Full Business Case (FBC), and Construction and Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE). The process has been used in more than 70 health projects since its inauguration in 2014, and more than 130 assessments have been facilitated by the CIC’s own team of accredited independent facilitators. The CIC says DQIfH2 will support the objectives set for major capital investment in the NHS healthcare estate, e.g. Health Infrastructure Plan 1 and 2 Schemes, and link with other government requirements on improved design quality to reduce risk and cost. Graham Watts, chief executive of CIC (pictured), said: “Improving quality in the built environment is at the core of CIC’s mission, and the new DQI for Health 2 aligns excellently with the work CIC is doing elsewhere, in terms of improving building design, safety, quality, and procurement.”
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