NHS Thought-Leadership

Alongside our webinars, we host quarterly thought-leadership workshops for healthcare leaders and NHS executives.

Striking the Balance: Robust Design and Therapeutic Environments

How do we balance the need for robust and durable spaces for patients with the creation of a therapeutic healthcare environment? What measures can be taken to guarantee that the design of mental health spaces caters to the needs of both patients and staff? How can we drive continuous improvement in this area?

As custodians of both established and new mental health spaces, we have an opportunity to ensure design is right from the beginning, delivering spaces that can provide excellent standards of care and treatment of mental health, improving both the lives of those who using the services and staff working within the setting.

Speakers:

Beatrice Fraenkel (Hon) FRIBA –  Design Consultant, Non-Executive Director Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Design Council Trustee, Director of Design in Mental Health Network

Eric Fehily – Partnership Director of Estates and Facilities, North London Mental Health Partnership

Kai Xin Tan – Healthcare Architect & Associate, Fleet Architects

Simon Adamson – Director of Estates, Facilities & Capital, Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Section 136 Suites: meeting patient and staff needs:

In this roundtable webinar, we are joined by NHS Trusts to examine the challenges encountered in existing Section 136 (S136) suites, exploring how we can design and build environments that enhance the wellbeing of both staff and patients; answering the question: how can we build better for patients and staff?

Agenda

• Current challenges faced in mental health design
• What is the impact of design on healing?
• How can we design better for patients and staff?
• Next steps & signposting: details of support for NHS teams
• Live Q&A with the panel

Alongside our monthly webinars, we host quarterly thought-leadership workshops for healthcare leaders and NHS executives.

In a resource constrained environment, what has the most impact on the acute setting? In our next thought-leadership webinar, our panel of healthcare experts will examine how acute hospital operations can be impacted by transforming outpatient support and services; the success of accessing diagnostics within the community and the impact of digital innovation on patient experience, as well as case studies demonstrating a strategic approach to the use of estate space.

Agenda

• Examining the pressures in an acute hospital – live case studies.
• The impact of diagnostics on the high street –  including Health on the High Street case studies and examples of how we are seeing clinical expertise being connected into a space. Dorset NHS will examine its role in working with diverse partners to reimagine the use of space on the high street and building on economic development whilst improving the health and social care experience for the people of Dorset.
• Estates strategy – from reducing pressure in emergency care to supporting elective recovery targets.
• Digital innovations for patient centred care – how can digital bring clinical teams and patients together? What are indicators to look for when making a decision on the appropriate system to use for maximum results? If your NHS Trust only has the option to roll out one digital efficiency, what should it be?

Speakers:

Nick Jenkins – Emergency Department Consultant, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Ashleigh Boreham, Deputy Chief Officer of Strategy and Transformation, NHS Dorset

Marcia Lewis, Clinical and Transformational Consultant, Productive Partners

In this thought-leadership webinar James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Jaime Bishop, healthcare architect and co-chair of Architect’s for Health, discussed the objectives and learnings that single rooms will bring to future hospital builds at the Trust, as well as how hospitals can bridge from where they are now to 100% single rooms.

NHP has stated that all new hospitals are to be built with single rooms only. The commitment to single rooms represents a major change to traditional British multi-bed wards, and the effects on hospital design are likely to require amendments to many NHS Trusts’ current proposals.

Agenda

• Thinking: understanding existing research, the process of innovative co-design
• Objectives & learnings from single rooms: for the wider hospital and future builds
• Key lessons for NHS Trusts as they move to 100% single rooms