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Joe Forster President
jforster@dimhn.org
Jenny Gill Chair/Secretary
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Clive Stone Treasurer
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Philip Ross Membership
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Dr Evangelia Chrysikou Research Lead
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www.dimhn.org Service-user involvement a vital element
Welcome to another issue of The Network, the growing journal that shares our experiences, knowledge, and ideas. Please get in touch with your news and feedback about any aspect of mental healthcare design in which you are involved. Just as The Network features perspectives from across the whole range of people involved – service-users, designers, providers, contractors, and suppliers – so too will our national conference, exhibition, and awards coming up in Birmingham on 17 and 18 May 2016. Now widely believed to improve design, utilisation, efficiency, and innovation, effective collaboration among all these groups of people is highly sought after. However, we often hear that service-users can be difficult to engage, staff members too busy to spare their time, or post-project evaluations hard to find. DIMHN has a number of workstreams under way to help you address this. Not least alongside this is the way we ourselves model how effectively collaboration can work – DIMHN itself is managed and operated by that full range of people, including service-users and carers by experience. At this year’s awards dinner, we are delighted to feature Frank Bruno as our speaker. An eminent national hero, role model, and distinguished figure from the very top of international sport, he is also open about his struggle with mental health. Yet on top of his success in heavyweight boxing, he went on to be a prize-winner in literature for his autobiography.
JOURNAL OF THE DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK
Joe Forster
COVER PICTURE: The new £24 m Oberlands Centre on the Princess Elizabeth Hospital site at St Andrews, Guernsey, has, the island’s Health and Social Services Department (HSSD) says, enabled a ‘transformation of services’, to ‘focus on rehabilitation and recovery, and provide a more stable environment for staff and service-users’.
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A new era for Guernsey’s mental health services
Andrew Street of IBI Group describes the architectural practice’s work with the Health & Social Services Department at the States of Guernsey to provide a new home for the island’s mental healthcare services.
Dementia, designers, and dandelions
Two garden designers recently undertook a research project in the care sector to answer a simple question, ‘Why aren’t care home gardens used more actively?’
Specification challenges in mental health examined
The director of a specialist in the design and manufacture of anti-ligature door and window hardware considers some of the challenges in the process of mental healthcare specification.
Farnham Road facility melds old and new
A new 60-bed adult acute mental healthcare facility in Guildford was designed with a key focus on ‘de-stigmatising’ those suffering from a mental health illness using it.
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All this means that across this journal, behind the scenes at DIMHN, and throughout our conference and awards, service-users are fully involved. More than that, many are prominent figures in other walks of life. So, just looking at some examples of those with service-user experience currently taking significant roles in the various activities of DIMHN, we have a world champion sportsman, the chairman of not just one, but two national organisations, a leading academic, a newspaper columnist, a Trust chief executive, a national strategy lead, and people running their own businesses or holding senior positions in others. Alongside them are many others also overcoming the difficulties of mental health service use and leading ordinary, decent lives. The group that contains people of this calibre should not be difficult to engage – they are impossible to ignore. We are pleased to be able to bring these groups of people together in various ways, and the conference,
exhibition, and awards, is something of a high point in this process. We hope to see you there, and that our 2016 national event will celebrate and energise your efforts to improve and innovate in design.
Joe Forster President, Design In Mental Health Network
NEWS Creativity and collaboration never more critical
With mental health issues very much on the news agenda, we look ahead to some of the key highlights for those attending the Design in Mental Health Network 2016 event in Solihull next month.
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Photo courtesy of IBI Group/Infinite 3D.
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