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Service-users help design welcoming interiors


Service-users have created poetry, inspired artworks, and helped to design the interior of Thames Lodge, a new Medium Secure Unit at St Bernard’s Hospital in West London which opened in February 2016. Art and health consultants, Willis


Newson, were appointed by the West London Mental Health NHS Trust to work with David Morley Architects to integrate art into the new building. Working with writer, Sue Mayfield,


and artist, Ali Brown, Willis Newson devised a series of creative workshops, engaging service-users in the design process to build a sense of pride and ownership. Beginning with simple drawing exercises, Ali Brown’s visual arts workshops saw them contribute their ideas and visions, including generating concepts around the theme of ‘rivers’ for the colour palette and artworks. Creative writing workshops developed the theme further. Sue Mayfield worked with service-users to develop ‘rivers’ of poetry, lines from which were incorporated into large-scale graphics and stencils used in ward areas and corridors. Artist, Alison Milner, created the final


artworks, using the colours, theme, and ideas, selected by service-users, taking inspiration


Artist, Alison Milner.


from local landscapes, and weaving lines of their poetry into her designs. In the children and family visitor spaces, circular enamel panels illustrated with day and night-time riverside scenes create a friendly, welcoming impression. Lines of the ‘river poetry’ written by service- users are stencilled along the main corridor, facilitating navigation.


Large-scale graphic murals help ‘zone’ the space, ‘creating unique environments in the quiet rooms, meeting spaces, and dining room’. ‘Each feature wall artwork contributes to a coherent identity for the Three Bridges Medium Secure Unit, which is directly linked to the local area and the people who live in the space’.


Go-ahead for Nottingham young people’s unit


Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s proposed £21 m new unit for Children, Young People and Families has received planning permission from Nottingham City Council. The development is to be built on the


Trust’s vacant site on Mansfield Road in Nottingham, formerly known as The Cedars site. It will include a new 24-bed unit for children and young people who need support for their mental health needs, a specialist eight-bedded PICU, a new Mother and Baby Unit, and outpatient facilities for Perinatal Mental Health Services.


The site will also provide outpatient services for children and young people using Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and act as a ‘child and family friendly’ campus, with an education centre for young people away from their own schools while at the unit. The Trust has been working towards this development for some time, and says this approval is ‘a major step forward for the exciting and important facility for young people and their families’.


Extensive design meetings have taken 8 THE NETWORK Ap r i l 2 0 16


place, with full involvement from the Adolescent Unit teams, Perinatal teams, and young people and their families who use these services. Gilling Dod Architects has produced designs which incorporate all their feedback. The unit’s construction will be undertaken


by the Trust’s P21+ partners, Kier Construction; the facility is expected to be completed by late 2017.


Robotic cleaning


reimagined Diversey Care’s new TASKI Intellibot automatic robotic cleaning machines are reportedly the UK and Europe’s first fully


automated commercial cleaners; they clean floors ‘hands free’.


Advanced features include ‘complete programming flexibility’, remote management capability and performance metrics, and interconnectivity with ‘the Internet of Clean’, Diversey Care’s ‘re-imagination of the cleaning industry’.


Calum Meadows, country lead, Diversey Care UK & Ireland, said: “These machines can improve the economics of cleaning by significantly boosting productivity, saving up to 80% on labour costs, and using up to 85% less water and chemicals.” The first machine available in the UK is the


TASKI swingobot 1650 scrubber drier, with the TASKI aerobot 1850 vacuum cleaner to be available later in 2016.


Intellibot machines are initially configured by


TASKI specialists following an on-site review of the operating environment. Floors are divided into separate rectangular areas, which the machine learns automatically. Routes comprising two or more adjacent areas are then named and stored in an on-board memory, with all functions managed by a simple icon-based colour touchscreen.


Broad-based range


from ‘one-stop shop’ Established in 2013 by Carl Need, a DIMHN director, Anti-Ligature Shop offers mental healthcare sector specifiers a wide range of products from numerous suppliers – ranging from access hatches to vision panels. Carl Need has worked with customers ranging from NHS hospitals to prisons both in the UK, and increasingly also in Sweden, France, and the US. He said: “Anti-Ligature Shop offers a wide range of products on a one-stop shop basis. We can provide all the help and guidance customers need to ensure they get right products. My professional background has enabled me to help with design of some products, a number of which are still under development, and will be released soon. “For example, we offer our own ventilation grille and radiator cover, which I helped design, and we continue to improve. I have also helped design a furniture range which is adaptable to fit into any environment, cost-effective, and looks great.”


Anti-Ligature Shop also now offers anti- ligature testing, anti-ligature training, and specialist installation..


Photo courtsey of John Sturrock.


Photos courtesy of Gilling Dod Architects.


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