BOARD MEMBERS
Bringing broad-ranging experience
The Board Members of the Design in Mental Health Network (DIMHN) bring to the organisation wide-ranging experience in areas ranging from mental health nursing to healthcare planning/architecture, and from product manufacture to service-user experience of the mental healthcare system. A brief profile of each Member follows.
JENNY GILL – the chairman of DIMHN, is an experienced healthcare planner specialising in the field of mental health. She has a background in mental health NHS management, and has been involved in the mental health sector for over two decades. She was commissioned by the Department of Health as lead author for the Health Building Note (HBN) 03-01 – Adult acute mental health units, and liaised on the Environmental Design Guidance for Medium Secure Units.
JOE FORSTER – President of DIMHN, is a mental health nurse with interests in the social environment and human-scale development. He promotes networking as a means of collaboration for positive change. After an extensive career in clinical work he remains involved in teaching, consultancy, and social enterprise. He is a frequent presenter at various events, where he challenges audiences to set aside preconceptions and adopt new styles of partnership for innovation.
Joe Forster
Dr EVANGELIA CHRYSIKOU is the owner of SynThesis Architects (London-Athens), an award-winning architectural practice specialising in healthcare facilities. She is one of the very few architects around the world holding a PhD in healthcare facilities, and especially in facilities for the mentally ill, giving a unique position of global expertise for her practice. She has undertaken extensive research on the environment for the mentally ill, and has received several awards for this work.
KEVIN GORMAN is chairman of the multi-award winning company, Britplas. The designer and innovator of a number of products used in the mental health sector, he has worked extensively to improve the environment within mental health facilities with innovative design.
RUSSELL HOGARTH is an associate lecturer in health and social care at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). His area of special interest is in the use of narrative, media, and creative teaching techniques as a pathway to inclusion and accessible education. He chairs the Creative Communities Group, the annual One in Four mental health Film Festival, and the World Health Organization Mental Health Day community event, and also chairs a national and international independent community involvement team. He was awarded a University Honorary Fellowship by UCLAN in 2012 in recognition of his voluntary and community work with a special emphasis on his services to mental health.
Jenny Gill Doreen McCollin
DOREEN McCOLLIN is an experienced nurse and manager with extensive experience of commissioning and managing secure services within the NHS and the independent sector. She has worked to shape a range of NHS bodies, as well as sitting on NHS national groups and editorial boards. Currently she is chief executive officer of Vista Healthcare. She champions patient empowerment and engagement, as well as chairing Vista’s Clinical Governance team.
Denise Parker
DENISE PARKER is a qualified mental health nurse with extensive experience, having worked in a wide variety of mental health settings – including inpatient, nursing home, day hospital, and community, for the NHS, private, and charity sectors. Currently she is senior lecturer (Mental Health) at the Liverpool John Moores University, where her work has included working on a European Union ‘Interreg’ project, ‘Innovate Dementia’.
PHILIP ROSS founded Safehinge in 2009, and is currently the commercial director – overseeing customer relations and new product development. Safehinge is ‘an award-winning product design company with a heartfelt passion for finding innovative new ways of doing things, particularly where it will enhance a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment within a mental health setting’.
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou Philip Ross
CLIVE STONE is a director of Primera. He has been a full member of the Master Locksmiths Association since 1981, serving 21 years as chairman of the Western Region. He is a Diploma holder of the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers, and a member of the Institute of Architectural Ironmongers. Clive Stone represented the UK on the CEN 1303 panel in Europe, particularly in relation to the development of EN15684. He is also a member of the Door and Hardware Federation committee responsible for writing and producing the anti-ligature hardware product standard, TS001:2013.
Kevin Gorman Clive Stone
CARL NEED developed the concept of the Anti-Ligature Shop in 2011 following a 22 year-long career within the mental health sector. He trained and worked as an electrician within a high secure hospital, working his way up to Estates Manager. He adds: “With the condition of properties in the mental healthcare sector often not as good as in other areas of healthcare, my passion for improvement grew.”
Russell Hogarth Carl Need
To contact a member of the Board, or for further information, please email
contact@dimhn.org
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