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Balancing security with a therapeutic environment

HLM Architects’ Neil Orpwood reflects on insights from the DiMH 2024 Conference, and a session exploring the balance between local and specialist services.

The benefits of ‘the right light at the right time’

Dr Shelley James, a lighting design consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, author, and elected member of the WELL Light Advisory Team, discusses the significant positive impact that today’s advanced lighting technologies can have both on patient and service-user recovery, state of mind, and mood, and staff’s wellbeing and ability to deliver the...

AGM reveals income and event numbers up

News of the successful re-location to Manchester of the Network’s 2024 conference and exhibition featured among topics discussed at the organisation’s ‘online’ 2024 AGM.

Assisting de-escalation through product design

Isabel Ferreira, Global head of Products at Pineapple Contracts, which manufactures and supplies ‘mindfully designed furniture for transforming challenging environments’, discusses the positive impact of good product design in assisting de-escalation, minimising feelings of anxiety, and helping to create a calmer, more therapeutic environment and...

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