PREVIEW


What: Mental health and dementia facilities forum


When: 14-15 November 2019 Where: Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire


Web: www.mhdf-forum.co.uk


Designing for mental health – inside and out


T


he recently-unveiled NHS Long- Term Plan provides a blueprint showing how to best use


Government funding to ensure the NHS is fit for the future. And it makes a renewed commitment that mental health services will grow faster than the overall NHS budget, creating a ring-fenced local investment fund worth at least £2.3billion a year by 2023/24.


This will enable further service


expansion of, and faster access to, community and crisis mental health services for both adults and children and young people. Dubbed the ‘biggest-ever investment in mental health services’, the cash will see around two million more people who suffer with anxiety, depression or other problems receive help, including providing 24-hour access to crisis care. But what does this mean for the


mental health estate and those charged with ensuring it operates efficiently? The extensive plans for investment laid out in the document clearly cannot


be delivered effectively from current facilities, so there will inevitably be a need for a network of new buildings. And, earlier this summer the


new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced an extra £1.8billion for NHS estate and service improvements.


CASH BOOST


This will include a number of mental health projects, including a new £72m adult acute inpatient unit in Manchester; and a 40-bed low-secure unit for people with learning disabilities on Merseyside. You can find out more about this


investment, and how it will provide a boost to the mental health estate at this year’s mental health & dementia


facilities forum. To be held over two days in Northamptonshire in November; the annual event offers suppliers of specialist mental health and dementia products and services the opportunity to meet key decision-makers involved in the design and construction of health and care facilities. Creating a productive networking


environment through which delegates can create long-lasting business relationships; supplier and project delegate schedules are matched in advance to ensure their time at the event is maximised. There are also three speaker


sessions, with experts from the sector offering advice on making the most of


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