DEMENTIA PROJECTS


business partnerships.” Attendees at the forum in past


years have described it as ‘excellent’, ‘worthwhile’, and ‘genuine’. A spokesman for former project


delegate, Summers Inman, said: “This provides excellent networking opportunities and is a great forum to learn about the latest innovation and leading-edge products available in the ever-changing health sector. “Our industry is all about people, and the mhdf is all about people!”


dementia care facilities, both privately and publicly procured, reaches record levels; and as it is more widely accepted that more needs to be done to increase the number of modern mental health environments in the UK. Barbour ABI figures show at least 140 dementia care projects, and 300 mental health schemes, as being at various stages of development and tender, and there are more than 3,000 mixed-use residential projects which include an element of elderly care accommodation, a huge proportion with dementia care facilities. Jo Makosinski, editor of mhdf magazine and chair of the speaker panel, said: “The healthcare sector as a whole is bucking the trend that is seeing construction activity dwindle. “And there are huge opportunities within the mental health and dementia sub sectors, where specialist contractors and suppliers are highly sought after.


“The mental health and dementia


facilities forum gives investors, construction companies, architects and providers of products and services the chance to meet each other and to help enhance the built environment moving forward. “Unlike traditional conferences


and exhibitions, the structure of the forum means delegates can create very-real relationships which we know have, in the past, turned into genuine


CEMENTING RELATIONSHIPS And a spokesman for supplier delegate, Kingsway, added: “This is an excellent event providing an opportunity to connect with key personnel from NHS trusts and healthcare providers in the private sector, along with associated project architects and consultants. It is definitely a key date in the diary.” Delegates already signed up for


this year’s event include Pozzoni Architecture, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Medical Architecture, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Association for Dementia Studies, and Hamad Medical Corp. This year’s event will be held at


Whittlebury Hall in Northamptonshire on 15-16 November.


For more information about the event, or to register for your place, visit the website at www.mhdf-forum.co.uk


Sample of registered project delegates Company


Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mersey Care NHS FT P & HS Architects Faithful & Gould


Community 1st Cornwall


Lincolnshire Partnership NHS FT Sussex Partnership NHS FT Hamad Corporation Qatar AP Architecture Interserve


HLM Architects Cullinan Studio


Job Title


Capital and Minor Works Project Manager Strategic Estates Project Manager Senior Architect Associate Director General Manager


Assoc. Director Estates & Head of Capital Projects Head of Projects and Capital Projects Manager Head of Architectural Division MD


Healthcare Operations Director Associate Director (Healthcare) Practice Leader


Project(s) Value £50m


£120m £102m £200m+ £10m £44m £10m


380,000,000$ £30m


£303m £108m £15m


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