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Children and Young People: Designing for Diversity
Facilities for children and young people’s mental health services need to accommodate a particularly diverse patient group. How do we do this well? For example The difference in maturity from someone 4 vs. 18 is significantly different, far greater than throughout working-adult age: 18 to 65. How do we create an environment that feels appropriate… Read more »
Environmental Considerations for ‘Autism Friendly’ Wards
Since early 2021, a team within Sussex Partnership have taken an in-depth look at what it means for acute adult mental health wards to be ‘Autism Friendly’. The team used a fully collaborative process, with Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Experts by Experience (EbEs) working alongside ward teams, Trust Estates and Facilities, project… Read more »
Designing Buildings for Truly Person-Centred Care – How Do We Create a New Standard for Inpatient Environments That Improves Each Individual’s Recovery?
We are all different. What makes each of us tick and feel able and well to tackle the challenges of the world is different. How to we find comfort and wellbeing away from home? We know that personalised and flexible spaces are the result of choice and create the opportunity for individualised care and recovery…. Read more »
Mental Health on the High Street
1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem of some kind each year, and the biggest current concern for these people is the problem with accessing support. Shortage of providers is now critical and staff burnout prevention has become a major concern. The workshop shall aim to look at means of making mental health… Read more »
Retro Upgrade – Child and Adolescent Centred Environments with NHFT
Working with NHFT for over 10 years – Fleet will be sharing the work on 2 retrofit projects with the Trust – the first is a relocation of CAMHS into an existing PFI operated estate including a modest extension to accommodate art and education activities. The second is a respite residential care facility for guest… Read more »
Design for Particular Groups: Autism Friendly Design – How to Engage People With Autism at the Design Stage
Architecture is a discipline that helps organise environments to suit the user’s requirements and needs. This is fundamental to our design philosophy, none more so than when we work on mental health projects. We believe that creating autism friendly environments is central to any scheme and that, no more, should people with autism have to… Read more »
A Service User Approach to Zero Carbon – a Year On
In 2020, The NHS declared its journey to net zero vision. This ambitious vision includes mile-stone targets for an 80% reduction in the carbon footprint by 2028-2032 and a 100% reduction in the carbon footprint by 2040 (net zero carbon performance). Achieving these targets demands that we collaborate, acting now, acting decisively, and acting correctly…. Read more »
ARCHXPLORE: How Architecture May Impact Aggression and Recovery in a New Purpose-Built Forensic Psychiatric Hopsital – a Mixed Method Study
Several studies departing from the experiential worlds of patients and staff have explored the links between the architectural design of forensic psychiatric buildings and the patient recovery process. Others have proposed models of how psychiatric wards may be designed to reduce stress and aggression. Nevertheless, one of the most prominent recommendations in the literature concerning… Read more »
Collaboration and Partnership Innovation: Queen Elizabeth Hospital – New Mental Health Assessment Area
An audit of mental health patients carried out by Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust in August 2019 found that more than half of the people who went to emergency departments (EDs) for help because of their mental health waited more than four hours to get the right care. One in seven spent more than 12… Read more »
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