RECENT NEWS

Armitage Shanks has launched two ‘innovative healthcare solutions’ designed to help in the fight against infection in healthcare facilities.

After ‘substantial investment into revolutionary technology’, and design collaboration with its parent company Ulster Carpets, supplier of carpets to the healthcare sector, Danfloor UK, is due to launch two new collections.

Architectural consultancy, Michael Hall Associates, selected Zeta Specialist Lighting’s Ecolux Solar LED trough lighting system, which is ‘entirely powered by solar’, to illuminate a newly designed wayfinding system at Bradford’s Lynfield Mount Hospital.

UK-based engineering design consultancy and DIMHN member, Troup Bywaters + Anders (TB+A), has become only the third construction industry organisation globally to be awarded the Platinum standard by Investors in People (IiP).

A report recently published by NHS England outlining the progress made in the first year of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health sets out which areas are beginning to see improved access to care, and outlines examples of good local practice.

Multitone Electronics has installed its EkoTek staff protection and patient alert system at The Retreat, a charitable, not-forprofit specialist mental healthcare provider in York, which offers services for people with complex and challenging needs.

BSI, the business standards company, has revised the BS 8214 Code of practice for fire door assemblies.

The Masonic Charitable Foundation is donating a £10,000 grant to a new therapeutic gardens project at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, which will see two gardens at the hospital’s Highlands Wing transformed.

NHS Improvement said in February it had commenced its review into community and mental health Trusts, ‘building on the approach of the Carter Report on operational productivity and performance in NHS acute hospitals’.

UK security manufacturer, ITS Products, has released new stainless steel versions of its high security CMD cameras; they are now available in a choice of finishes and as an IP or analogue unit.

The latest version of Bristan’s specification brochure provides comprehensive information on its ‘tailored collection’ of taps, showers and accessories – including for healthcare – and enables users to search for items by product type or specialist sector.

Recently introduced by Anti-Ligature Shop, the J Trac is a new anti-ligature ceiling/wall fixed curtain track which incorporates glider runners designed to unclip when a specific weight is applied.

The Design In Mental Health Network (DIMHN) has launched an all-new website aimed at communicating its bold ambitions to a wider audience.

Manufacturer of life safety solutions, Gent by Honeywell, says its ‘new and improved’ S-Quad Anti-Ligature (fire detector) Base (ALD302) is designed to provide additional safety within buildings that accommodate individuals considered to be at risk.

NHS England, along with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health (DH), is to invest £70 million over the next four years ‘to test different ways to support people with a disability or long-term condition to get in and stay in work’.

Safehinge has acquired Primera Life, a specialist manufacturer of anti-barricade locksets and other specialist door hardware widely used in mental healthcare environments.

A £4.4 million purpose-built facility designed to care for some of Fife’s most vulnerable patients has opened its doors at Stratheden Hospital.

Mind has found that local authorities in England spend an average of just 1.36 per cent of their public health budget on mental health – despite having a remit to prevent both physical and mental health problems in the communities they serve.

A new specification guide to its portfolio of architectural aluminium glazing systems has been published by Kawneer.

Medical Architecture has won its first commission in Scotland, that will see the relocation of NHS Borders’ Mental Health Rehabilitation unit.