With the NHS in England recently committing to ‘the biggest transformation of mental healthcare across the NHS in a generation’, this month sees the Design in Mental Health 2016 conference, exhibition, and dinner take place at the National Conference Centre (formerly known as the National Motorcycle Museum) in Solihull.
This year’s annual Design In Mental Health Network event takes place from 1718 May, bringing together architects, mental health professionals, and service-users – ‘in fact everyone involved in delivering therapeutic environments’. IHEEM is an event supporter, and will have a stand, where head office staff will be on hand to explain the benefits of Institute membership.
onference keynotes will be given by Tom Cahill, CEO of Herts Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and Faisil Sethi, consultant psychiatrist and associate clinical director at the London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Other speakers will include Matthew Balaam, partner at Oxford Architects; Lianne Knotts, associate director, Medical Architecture: Professor Harry Kennedy, consultant forensic psychiatrist and executive clinical director at the National Forensic Mental Health Service in Dublin; Stephanie Brada, P21+ development director at Willmott Dixon; Jeff Bartle, head of Design at St Andrew’s Healthcare; Ginni Duncan-Bilham, assistant project manager, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Stuart McArthur, Health Sector leader, Laing O’Rourke, – and Rosemary Jenssen, director, Jenssen Architecture. Conference sessions will cover topics including ‘CAMHS environments’, ‘Use of technology in the environment’; ‘Delivering design quality’, ‘Dementia’; ‘ProCure 21+ / ProCure 22’, Post-Occupancy Evaluation’, ‘Interior design’, and ‘Outside spaces’.
For more information, visit www.designinmentalhealth.com, or T: 01892 518877.