Archives: Seminars

A Whole New Way – Designing the New Cambridge Children’s Hospital

Cambridge Children’s Hospital (CCH) is the first children’s hospital in the UK to integrate physical and mental healthcare, bringing young people, their families, clinicians, and researchers into the same space to foster collaboration and innovation within the emerging Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC), the centre of Europe’s leading life sciences cluster. The spatial organisation supports a… Read more »

Engaging the Vision for the New Warneford Park, Oxford

– Outlining the vision to create an outstanding environment for healthcare, research, innovation, and education, achieved with true co production. The presentation will focus on how we have started a complex journey in realising a shared vision and ambitious plans driven by a unique collaboration between an NHS Foundation Trust, the oldest university in the… Read more »

Coproducing Cultural Change and Improvement at our Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit Using our 4Cs Philosophy and Visual Identity

Ty Llidiard: 15-bed Child/Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) regional admission hospital unit in Bridgend. • 2019: went into level 4 enhanced monitoring (‘special measures’ highest level) over quality, safety, leadership and culture concerns. • Undertook intensive 4Cs work programme to change the unit’s culture and physical environment to address concerns and improve staff and young people’s… Read more »

A Service User’s Journey to Redesigning Mental Health Assessment Spaces in the Emergency Department

Patients with mental health disorders could find themselves in the emergency department in their most vulnerable state. However, CQC research has identified that these patients have a poorer perceived experience than other patient groups. Increasingly, the physical needs for patients with mental health disorder in the emergency pathway have been addressed and dedicated places of… Read more »

The Art of Wellbeing: Mental Health Recovery by Design

This presentation will explore a joint project undertaken by the University of Lincoln and NHS Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (LPFT). In 2020 LPFT secured substantial funding to undertake the eradication of dormitory accommodation by designing and building an extension to the Peter Hodgkinson Acute Mental Health Centre at Lincoln County Hospital. As part of this… Read more »