Design in Mental Health 2016 Show Preview
Robust washroom products’ ‘domestic feel’
‘Market-leader’ Dart Valley Systems (DVS) has manufactured and supplied high secure washroom products for specialist applications, including mental healthcare and custodial environments, for over 20 years. The company said: “Designed for the toughest environments and manufactured using advanced technologies, DVS Safe-Ensuite sanitaryware is robust, yet designed to look domestic, making it ideal for therapeutic environments such as mental healthcare facilities. The techniques employed to construct these high security products are used very successfully in the field of ballistic armour. Additional properties include high resistance to cyclical stresses and dual stage failure mode, for excellent impact resistance.” The surface of DVS products is a high-grade polyester gel coat specifically formulated for use
Working tirelessly to improve design
Established in 2006, the Design in Mental Health Network has worked tirelessly to bring together people who use, work in, visit, or design, mental health buildings and products, to deliver better designs for mental healthcare environments. Chair, Jenny Gill, said:
with sanitaryware to provide high chemical and UV resistance. Alongside its high secure resin range, DVS offers ‘complete washroom water controls’ – including anti-vandal showerheads and spouts with the option of ‘wave-on sensor’ or tactile operation.
Access control that ‘ticks every box’
Access control software has been used in the commercial sector for many years but, claims Primera, ‘until now it has not been available in a package specifically tailored for the mental healthcare sector’. Primera said: “We are about to change this by launching the Passport Amadeo access control box at DIMH 2016. The battery-powered standalone hardware features an anti-barricade lockset and anti-ligature design. The software is smart and easy to programme.”
Amadeo uses the same enclosure and lockset as the existing Primera Passport system. The company said: “For service- users, it works in the same simple way. Behind the scenes, however, it can track the movements of any number of card or
fob-holders. Amadeo records the dates, times, and who is moving. It can highlight issues and raise alarms. It operates using Wi-Fi connectivity, which makes it safer, and
simpler to install without major expense. “Everything can be controlled from one central computer. A door can be programmed remotely, and virtual keys issued to operate any door by using a tablet or a smartphone. Additionally, any changes can be effective almost immediately, as the locks are continually polling for access updates from the networked system.”
Furniture for challenging environments
Teal, an ‘award-winning solutions provider for challenging environments’, will unveil ‘a host of new seating, dining and bedroom collections, designed for client risk levels up to high risk security environments’.
Astra Quantum+ (pictured), designed and developed for West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and installed at the Trust’s St. Bernard’s Hospital, is described as ‘a highly durable, extremely robust, armchair and sofa collection’.
With ‘pleasing contemporary styling’, Astra Quantum+ is a fully featured chair with ‘Complete upholstery’, a new method of sealing the upholstered seat to prevent concealment and reduce fluid ingress, with no protruding corners, and additional weighting options to protect both patients and carers. A new ‘Bespoke sofa’ range will also be showcased, allowing specifiers to create ‘any shape, any style’ of upholstered furniture by choosing the arm, leg, and cushion style in a choice of specification levels – from enhanced mental health to extreme specification. Teal will also show the new ‘Soltaire’ seating collection, said to offer enhanced safety and comfort for all client group risk levels, with solid wood glides for ease of manoeuvrability, and extreme specification, as standard.
“Our vision is mental healthcare provided in environments that bring hope, and are comfortable, therapeutic, and appropriate to those who use them. We work collaboratively across the health and social care
sectors, and invite engagement from everyone with a real interest in improving mental healthcare through design.
“While our first workstream was the Better Bedroom, others have followed, and we are currently working with the National Association for Psychiatric Intensive Care and low secure units (NAPICU), and the Building Research Establishment (BRE), on initiatives which will improve the mental health environment for all. “We launched the quarterly magazine, The
Network, in January 2015 to help us achieve these aims, and to disseminate, as widely as possible, the message of new and innovative solutions and best practice in design. Reaching a wide audience, it will continue to assist us in delivering a message of hope for the future.”
Feedback drove development
Static Systems will launch its ‘Fusion-IP Protect’ range of healthcare communication solutions, ‘designed for the well-being and protection of service-users and staff specifically within mental health environments’. The range includes systems for attack alarm, staff call, and fire alarm. Each is available standalone and, where required, can be integrated to provide centralised annunciation at a single staff base indicator. Advanced features include data capture with analytical reporting, call rounding, and pop-up messaging. Fusion-IP Protect can also operate with Static’s MIMic software to provide the benefits of smart device annunciation for mobile staff. “Key to the introduction of Fusion-IP
Protect is the feedback received from attendees at previous DiMH events,” said marketing manager, Jennie Horrocks. “With over 45,000 reported physical assaults in the mental healthcare sector in 2014-2015, we are keen to help where we can to build an environment of safety for service-users and staff. We hope that whilst attending this year’s show visitors will again stop by to provide further comment on our products.”
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