Designing better mental healthcare facilities

RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Strength, longevity, and thermal performance

Building on its success ‘over many years’ in the mental healthcare market, Fendor will launch a new ‘stripped back’ window, CareVent, aimed at general hospitals and other care facilities, which it describes as its ‘answer to standard double glazing’, offering strength and longevity, thermal performance, and additional security features’.

Life-sized murals with impact

A new range of ‘cost-effective’ murals that the company says ‘are visually striking, and can transform corridors or rooms into a vibrant, meaningful space for all who live, visit, and work there’, will be shown by Care Home Murals at the Care & Dementia Show (taking place at the NEC Birmingham from 3-4 November).

Keypad escutcheon offers ‘multi-factor’ authentication

Assa, part of Security Solutions, a division of Assa Abloy UK, has launched a KeyPad escutcheon that features multi-factor authentication, providing extra security for its SMARTair wireless access control system.

Keyed-alike, tamper-resistant locking

Life-Line is a new gated key system from Primera Life designed to limit the potential for service-users to block a key-way in an attempt to prevent clinical staff from operating the locks in a secure environment.

‘Fail-safe’ anti-ligature en suite door

Yewdale says ‘a zero ligature risk within the washroom environment is now a reality’ following its unveiling at May’s Design in Mental Health 2015 event of the SafeDoor by YewdaleKestrel.

Best-in-class doorset collaboration

At May's Design in Mental Health 2015 show Safehinge launched its new Symphony doorset 'package' – 'a fully coordinated door safety system for mental health and dementia care'.

Privacy and visibility the goal

Intastop has launched a range of vision panels that it says ‘provide discretion, while simultaneously allowing increased visibility’.

Fire detectors’ ‘lower false alarm risk’

Apollo Fire Detectors has unveiled the new addressable detectors which form the initial line-up in the SOTERIA detection range, described as ‘the next generation in fire recognition technology’.

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