Features - Healthcare Design & Management

Dementia care home for veterans gets a facelift

A specialist dementia care home in Warwickshire has been refurbished to provide increased support for veterans and their families. J Tomlinson’s refurbishment and engineering team delivered the improvement scheme at The Royal British Legion’s Galanos House. The £2.3m upgrade included the creation of two extensions to support increased capacity, as well as landscaping and parking works. As well as providing 10 additional dementia care bedrooms in the home’s award‐winning Poppy Lodge, J Tomlinson also wor...

Dementia care home for veterans gets a facelift

A specialist dementia care home in Warwickshire has been refurbished to provide increased support for veterans and their families. J Tomlinson’s refurbishment and engineering team delivered the improvement scheme at The Royal British Legion’s Galanos House. The £2.3m upgrade included the creation of two extensions to support increased capacity, as well as landscaping and parking works. As well as providing 10 additional dementia care bedrooms in the home’s award‐winning Poppy Lodge, J Tomlinson also wor...

Inpatient unit heralds a new era for mental health design

The facade features a simple palette of high-quality brickwork that will age well, is robust, and integrates with the materials of neighbouring buildings. And large Britplas Safevent windows—some of the largest the supplier has ever installed, at 2.1m high—address ligature risk and can be opened wide to reveal a fine perforated steel mesh. This allows good ventilation while preventing the passing of contraband. And a brick relief pattern around the window emphasises their size, the pattern handed to crea...

Morgan Sindall Construction wins £19m contract at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospita

Morgan Sindall Construction has won a £19m contract to deliver an extension and programme of improvements to the emergency department at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust selected its main contractor for the scheme through the Southern Construction Framework; a collaborative delivery vehicle run by Hampshire and Devon County councils. Plans were submitted to expand the hospital’s busy A&E last year, due to significant service pressures. The new build will hel...

Designing for people

Here we review the first virtual mental health and dementia facilities forum which was held earlier this week

Getting tough on bugs

The COVID-19 outbreak has thrown the spotlight on hospital cleanliness and hygiene. We look at how this is impacting on hospital infection control and facilities managers

A long road ahead

We ask whether the NHS is doing enough to meet the Government’s target of ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2050

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Experience-based design

Jo Makosinski speaks to the team at Cygnet Health Care about their novel approach to mental health design, which is transforming the way we think about therapeutic environments

Humanising mental health environments

Making mental health environments homely and ‘normalised’ can be a challenge when considering the somewhat-conflicting need for safety and security. But manufacturers are increasingly realising this and, as a result, a new generation of innovative products is hitting the market.