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Riverside Adolescent Mental Health Unit

Client
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Trust
Location
Bristol
Project Leaders
Robert Walder Catherine Ashworth
Value
2M

Challenge

The Riverside Unit is an Adolescent Mental Health Unit for young people aged 13 – 18 and serves the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset regions, providing in-patient care for 10 residents, alongside a day programme.

Quattro Design Architects was challenged to improve patient privacy and dignity by incorporating en-suites into all bedrooms and provide a bold new extension to accommodate auxiliary offices, teaching spaces and therapy suites.

Sector
Healthcare
Mental Healthcare
Services
Architecture
Lead Consultant (Project Lead)
Landscape Architecture
Principal Designer

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Riverside Unit
Quattro Design Architects Healthcare Architectural and Landscape Design Services
Quattro Design Architects Healthcare Architectural and Landscape Design Services

Solution

Working closely with the entire team, we designed a scheme set over two floors with treatment areas, secure rooms and back of house training facilities, all squeezed into a single building. This required careful and thoroughly well thought out reconfiguration of the existing building, with clear security strategy planning, anti-ligature design principles and detailed fire strategies to allow for safe passage in a fire, whilst maintaining secure living for the patients during their treatment period.

We also addressed other key issues that emerged through stakeholder engagement sessions with staff and residents. Creating a warmer, homely feel through interior design, flooding spaces with natural daylight, resulting in a successful scheme well-liked by patients and staff.

Riverside CAMHS in Bristol, part of Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Trust is an ever evolving mental health project. Quattro’s Healthcare Architects and Design Team has been providing an ongoing watching brief of continual phased development to front line in-patient mental health services for the trust.

The nursing staff and patients are absolutely thrilled with this fantastic new state-of-the-art ward. It is dementia friendly, with colour-co-ordinated décor designed to help patients find their way around the ward and identify which is their room or bay and where the bathrooms and facilities are.

Janette Thomas, Senior Sister
Stroud General Hospital

Our architects really listened to the outcomes that were important to us as a friendly and welcoming dental practice and managed to surpass them for both us and our patients.

Ellen Pawley, Practice Manager
Broad Street Dental Surgery, Hereford

This is one of our older buildings, but this refit will now allow us to offer the latest facilities in Cashes Green Ward, enabling us to provide the best possible care and treatment to patients

Candace Plouffe, Chief Operating Officer
Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust

The result is a fantastic, bright and spacious base where we can make sure our teams and, most importantly, the service users and carers we support are given the best possible facilities to support recovery.

Jan Furniaux, Service Director
2gether Trust, Gloucestershire

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Clients and Partners

Apleona PPP Ltd
Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust
E G Carter & Co Ltd
Avon & Wiltshire NHS Trust
Cobalt Health
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS
Halo
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Kier Living Ltd
NHS SBS
Speller Metcalfe Ltd
Royal Berkshire NHSFT
Sodexo
Swindon Borough Council
The Chamwell Centre Charity
Willmott Dixon Construction
Wye Valley NHS Trust

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