Design in Mental Health 2016 Preview
Creativity and collaboration never more critical
Whether you are looking at adding new buildings, considering refurbishing existing facilities, or thinking about ongoing maintenance or improvement work, the Design in Mental Health 2016 event, taking place from 17-18 May at the National Conference Centre, Solihull (formerly known as the National Motorcycle Museum), should provide an excellent forum for information, solutions, and ideas. The Network reports.
In mid-February this year the NHS in England committed to ‘the biggest transformation of mental healthcare across the NHS in a generation’, pledging to help more than a million extra people and invest more than a billion pounds a year by 2020/21. The announcement came in the wake of the
final report of an independent taskforce chaired by the chief executive of Mind, Paul Farmer, set up by the NHS as part of its Five Year Forward View to build consensus on how to improve services for people of all ages. The Taskforce’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health report includes wide-ranging recommendations, and proposes a three-pronged approach to improving care – through prevention, ‘the expansion of mental healthcare’, and integrated physical and mental healthcare. The Taskforce’s vice-chair, Jacqui Dyer, will discuss some of the key findings in the second keynote conference speech on the morning of the first day of this year’s DIMHN conference.
MEETING THE CHALLENGES Event director, James Lee, says of this year’s DIMH show: “Whether you are looking at adding new buildings, considering refurbishing existing ones, or thinking about the best and
existing buildings. Creativity and collaboration have never been more critical.
BRINGING TOGETHER STAKEHOLDERS
“Design in Mental Health brings together architects, mental health professionals – including estates and facilities personnel, and service-users – to discuss the key issues and the latest thinking on innovative mental healthcare facility design. One of the event’s key goals is to help create the ultimate project team, with the skills, expertise, perspectives, and insights to actually get things done – and create therapeutic environments that work for everyone. Since its inception in 2013, Design in Mental Health has proven a real catalyst for change. The focus this year will be on innovation, refurbishments, making existing spaces
most cost-effective approach to ongoing maintenance work, Design in Mental Health 2016 is here to help you source information, solutions, and ideas, and we are delighted to have some really high profile speakers at this year’s conference.” Themed ‘Meeting the challenges together’, the 2016 event comprises the Design in Mental Health Network’s annual conference, an awards dinner on 17 May, and an exhibition at which over 60 exhibitors will showcase the latest innovations. James Lee added: “We all understand the need to create safe, effective, and therapeutic mental healthcare environments, but not everyone has the budget to build from scratch, and NHS Trusts are increasingly having to make improvements within the constraints of
fit for purpose, and new-build projects.” A CEO’S VIEW
Giving the first of the two Day One keynotes will be Tom Cahill, chief executive at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, a provider of integrated health and social care across community and inpatient settings in Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and North Essex. He is expected to set the scene, from a CEO’s perspective – on the key role that high quality buildings play in good care provision. Other Day One morning speakers will
The annual DIMH conference brings together architects, mental health professionals – including estates and facilities personnel and clinicians, and service-users – to share ideas, and hear about the latest projects, innovations, and developments.
10 THE NETWORK Ap r i l 2 0 1 6
include Professor Paula Reavey, Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, who has also led and consulted on projects at London’s The Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospital and at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Set to speak on ‘Atmospheres of the Ward: examining service-user experiences of space in a medium secure forensic psychiatry unit’, Prof. Reavey has also designed and taught on courses relating to the psychology of mental health and distress, and developed a Masters in Mental Health and Clinical Psychology. Parallel Day One morning sessions will focus on ‘CAMHS environments’, and ‘The use of technology in service-user environments’, while afternoon sessions will cover ‘Delivering design quality’, ‘Dementia’, ‘Future Gazing’, and ‘Recovery with design in mind – a service-user perspective’. Speakers will include associate director at Medical Architecture, Lianne Knotts; Professor Harry Kennedy, consultant forensic psychiatrist and executive clinical director at the
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