Month: October 2016

The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Estates and Facilities Team has gone above and beyond over the past year, demonstrating an exceptional commitment to improving the experience of staff & service users both on and off the wards. Their work shows a sustained focus on enhancing people’s lives, creating better care

Millennium Lodge, the Lincolnshire Secure Children’s Home, has been conceived as a pathfinder scheme at a time when no design standard existed to address the combined educational, therapeutic and secure requirements of a modern setting. From the outset, we placed service user voice at the centre of the project using a tailored structured engagement model

The Heather Close Community Mental Health Centre (HCCMHC) is a pilot that represents a deliberate shift from episodic crisis response to neighbourhood-based clinical accountability. Unlike crisis cafés, which sit outside statutory pathways, this centre embeds voluntary sector activity within a fully operational secondary care service. Unlike traditional CMHT offices, it provides structured day service capacity,

In December 2024 NELFT embarked on the co-produced design and modular build of a new 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Assessment Hub, with an ambitious 3-month timeline to opening in March 2025. The service provides a safe, welcoming space for residents across northeast London in urgent mental health crisis. The hub offers immediate access to professional

The Berrywood CAMHS ward, The Sett, is a refurbished inpatient unit with a modest extension at Berrywood Hospital. The project reimagines what adolescent mental health care can look like within the constraints of a PFI-operated estate. The scheme relocates an adolescent service into a former older adult ward, transforming an underused clinical ward into a

Central London Samaritans’ new head office at 13 Salisbury Place represents a carefully considered refurbishment that balances sensitivity with therapeutic and sustainable design. The project enhances recovery and wellbeing, creating an environment that supports both those seeking help and those delivering it. The internal design provides two distinct but equally supportive journeys: one for callers,

Cygnet Elowen Hospital represents a transformative refurbishment project that places therapeutic design, recovery and co-production at its heart. Formerly a nursing home, it has been purposefully recreated as a specialist service for adults with eating disorders and complex personality disorders. It demonstrates how innovative, recovery-focused design can fundamentally enhance wellbeing and clinical outcomes.   Every

Approximately 1 in 4 women will have a mental health problem during pregnancy and/or in the first year after birth and up to 4 in 1000 of these women will require an admission to a Mother and Baby Unit (MBU).  Seren Lodge is new specialist MBU located in the heart of Chester and is the

The Nook is SAMH’s response to mental health crisis: accessible, barrier-free walk-in hubs where anyone can visit to speak about mental health, seven days a week. The interior design for The Nook in Glasgow is purposefully welcoming and homely – challenging traditional clinical design of mental health spaces – and designed in collaboration between Anna

The Derbyshire Making Room for Dignity Programme represents a step change in the delivery of modern mental healthcare environments in the UK, combining innovation, dignity and sustainability at scale. The programme has delivered two new adult Acute Assessment Units (AAUs) and Derbyshire’s first ever Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), eliminating the long‑standing need for service