Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is co-designing its ambitious new mental health facilities with service-users and clinical staff. The team behind ‘Making Room for Dignity’ reports on the plans for new inpatient facilities, and the progress made to date.
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is co-designing its ambitious new mental health facilities with service-users and clinical staff. The team behind the ‘Making Room for Dignity’ programme reports on the exciting plans for new inpatient facilities, and the progress made to date, for The Network.
In 2020 the Government pledged more than £400 m to eradicate dormitory accommodation from mental health facilities across the country to improve the safety, privacy, and dignity, of patients experiencing mental illness. In Derbyshire, significant national and local investment of over £150 m has been allocated for the development of new facilities, providing single room, en-suite accommodation across two new 54-bed acute mental health hospitals – the Northern Derbyshire Adult Acute unit at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, and the Southern Derbyshire Adult Acute unit at Kingsway Hospital, Derby, as well as a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Kingsway Hospital, with more facilities planned. The programme is called ‘Making Room for Dignity’, and the NHS Trust leading it, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, has attempted to put the views of patients and clinicians at the heart of the programme, at every step on the journey.
Building patient experience into the programme team
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