2015 DIMH Awards Dinner


The Project of the Year 2015 award was presented by Alan Towns, MD of Knightsbridge Furniture, to P+HS Architects.


Gilling Dod Architects’ architectural and interior design of The Lighthouse won the practice the Service User Experience Award.


The Lighthouse in Sandwell.


Cor Datema, a founding partner of Recornect, the winner of the Product Innovation of the Year 2015 Award, pictured with Jenny Gill (left) and Clare Allan (right).


Kingfisher Court.


about their treatment programme. It also enables service-users to control elements such as their own room lighting and temperature. The device has already seen several successful installations across Europe, has been shown at the DIMH show a number of times, and was recently successfully tested in accordance with the Department of Health’s Environmental Design Guide – Medium Secure Services. Recornect has recently made available, following the earlier launch of Windows software offering similar functionality, a dedicated Apple iOS ‘app’ to enable control and operation of the Cowall via an iPad.


DEMENTIA FACILITY A COMMUNITY RESOURCE The evening’s second award, for ‘Service User Experience’, sponsored by Teal LifeCare, was presented by the company’s sales director, Chris Watson, to Gilling Dod Architects, for the architectual and interior design of The Lighthouse, a community resource centre in Sandwell in the West Midlands run by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for people with dementia and their loved ones. The Lighthouse was designed to provide a calm and relaxing space, and includes a café, hair salon, prayer room, social club, and cinema. ‘Education resources’ include a show flat


‘Together we can achieve far more than the sum of what we can do individually, but we need to come together and collaborate’


The Recornect Cowall in the Better Bedroom 2.


incorporating practical guidance on how to make a home ‘dementia-friendly’. Joint-winners of this award were the ProCure21+ team – for the Repeatable Mental Health Bedroom initiative, which aims to promote use of standardised room designs and components to reduce building and installation costs and cut the time spent by NHS clients and their supply chains in design and consultation meetings.


WINNING WOODLAND SETTING The third award, ‘Project of the Year’ 2015, was presented by Alan Towns, MD of Knightsbridge Furniture, to P+HS Architects, for Kingfisher Court, a £42 m, 86-bedded adult acute inpatient unit completed in October 2014 for the Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS


‘From a design perspective, this increase in activity led to us beginning to think about flexible spaces, to accommodate more and different activities’


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Foundation Trust at Kingsley Green near Radlett. Designed to complement its tranquil woodland surrounds, the unit features a light and airy café with its own courtyard under a vaulted ceiling, an ECT suite and a Section 136 Place of Safety suite, ‘active’ and ‘passive’ outdoor activity courtyards, ‘quiet areas’ for patients, and eye-catching artwork, much of it created in collaboration with service-users.


INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNISED The two final awards acknowledged individual achievement. The first, the ‘Design Champion’ Award, was presented by Gary Barnes, senior director at Kier Health, who said: “This award is going to someone who has specialised in healthcare architecture for over 20 years, and has always championed smarter design. This person has also constantly sought to develop proposals for clarity, and to include staff and service-users in design, while providing leadership, innovation, and a sense of purpose in each and every scheme she has been involved with. She also cares passionately about the value of design quality and high quality mental health environments. Recently, this same commitment to creating these therapeutic environments has been applied to the P21+ Repeatable Mental Health Bedroom initiative, being rolled out this year. Her work also includes working with the Dragon Café and the Mental Health Fight Club – a vast pool of knowledge. It gives me great pleasure to


Photo courtesy P+HS Architects/David Churchill.


Photo courtesy Gilling Dod Architects.


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