Meeting the Challenge of Mental Healthcare Provision with Smart Design
Robert Walder, having specialised in this sector of design for over 20 years, discusses how the increased demand for Mental Health services over the past 12 months is affecting Mental Healthcare providers.
Lockdown impacts us all and as COVID-19 takes its toll and the ever-increasing demand for Mental Health services weighs heavily on current Mental Healthcare provision, the way in which Mental Health Services are delivered is changing fast.
Do you need to update your Feasibility and Mental Health Services Strategy?
Read the full article by Robert Walder, Healthcare Director at Quattro Design Architects, to find out how you can meet the challenge of Mental Healthcare provision with Smart Design.
Meeting the Challenge of Mental Healthcare Provision with Smart Design
It’s “Time to Talk” awareness day.
Lockdown impacts us all and as COVID-19 takes its toll and the ever-increasing demand for Mental Health services weighs heavily on current Mental Healthcare provision, the way in which Mental Health Services are delivered is changing fast.
Looking to the future, Community Monitoring could play an important role in the management of our nation’s mental health with the introduction of Mental Health Screening for groups most impacted by COVID-19, or Digital Phenotyping for the assessment and prediction of mental health outcomes facilitating a switch from individual-based approaches to population-wide screening.
From sensitively designed physical units to online systems and “Skype Rooms”, exemplar, adaptable, state-of-the-art Mental Health Design can support medical practitioners to reach and treat more patients more rapidly in new and improved ways.
An urgent response is vital as demand for Mental Health Services continues to grow. Recent changes (pre-COVID-19) in both the awareness and perception of Mental Health, coupled with the aftermath of Mental Health issues created by COVID-19, suggest that this pressure is likely to increase before it eases.
This is creating a major shift in the placement and priority of Mental Health within Healthcare Trusts at a time when a different approach to Mental Health treatment has also been identified.
Such changes call for an urgent review of Property Development or Estates Programmes and the need for both new modular type facilities and/ or the re-purposing of existing facilities, where a flexible-use approach through shared or adaptable services can provide additional resource to Clinical Service Teams.
Do you need to update your Feasibility and Mental Health Services Strategy?
Quattro delivers both traditional Consultancy Services for community-based units as well as Digital Services for online video conferencing.
Why Quattro Design Architects?
With over 20 years’ experience working in both outpatient and inpatient Mental Health buildings, we have an in-depth understanding of the issues and challenges associated with these services and how they impact on the design and implementation of Mental Health facilities for both patients and staff. You can read more about our internationally acclaimed PICU case study here.
