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NHS Trust psychology service goes digital

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has digitised and integrated its Clinical Health Psychology service into its trust-wide Electronic Patient Record

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Enter the 2025 BBH Awards: Celebrate your impact in healthcare

The Building Better Healthcare Awards are back another year with 20 different categories for you to enter. If you have worked on a project that has significantly impacted the...
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Considerations and challenges in design for mental health environments

Ben Lillywhite, Senior Architect at P + HS Architects, discusses the factors to consider and the challenges that come with design mental health environments

Patients empowered by tech will save the NHS

Professor Joe McDonald, Medical Director of the Access Group, has written an open letter to Wes Streeting, highlighting the drastic challenges in mental health services and presents an example of best practice that could be scaled across the NHS

MHRA launches new guidance for digital tech aimed at mental health

New guidance has been created to help manufacturers navigate medical device regulations and protect users of digital mental health technologies

Case study of Highgate East mental health facility

Kingsway Group has shared the journey of its Highgate East mental health facility project, an exemplary example of user-centred and therapeutic design

Breaking the cycle: Transforming mental health care through digital solutions

Adam Crampsie, CEO of Everyturn Mental Health, highlights the need for systemic change in the mental health industry

Kier tops out on mental health hospital on Sussex Coast

A topping out ceremony has been held on the site of the new "campus-style" Combe Valley Hospital being built by Kier Construction

IHP completes build of £41m Hellesdon Hospital wards and gym

The Vinci Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine joint venture has completed new facilities to support mental health patients in Norfolk and Suffolk

Galliford Try completes £11m Stonebow mental health unit

Construction firm Galliford Try has handed over the Stonebow mental health unit to Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Park House's £105m replacement inpatient hospital becomes operational

The new North View adult mental health inpatient hospital is up and running at the North Manchester General Hospital site

IHP's hands over £105m mental health facility

IHP has handed over the new state-of-the-art £105m adult mental health inpatient unit, North View in Manchester to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust

NHS Trust merger: Introducing Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Solent NHS Trust have merged to form the new NHS Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare

Willmott Dixon breaks ground on £20m Bristol mental health unit

UK-based construction expert Willmott Dixon has started work on the yet-to-be-named health unit that will provide care and support for people with a learning disability or autism from across the northern half of the southwest region

York’s Mental Health Partnership wins £2.44m for new 24/7 mental health hub

York’s Mental Health Partnership has secured £2,448,856 over two years to fund a 24/7 mental health hub

Mental health partnership: Hauser & Wirth joins forces with Hospital Rooms

To mark its third year of collaboration with Hospital Rooms, Hauser & Wirth has launched the exhibition, Digital Art School

GRAHAM helps NHS trust phase out shared dormitory mental health wards

UK-based construction expert GRAHAM has told Building Better Healthcare about its new state-of-the-art mental health facility that will phase out traditional shared dormitory mental health wards

GRAHAM’s pre-employment programme moves to Liverpool

CRE8, construction expert GRAHAM’s pre-employment programme, has been delivered at Mossley Hill Mental Health Facility’s construction site in Liverpool

Mace joins Cambridge Children's Hospital project

Mace has been appointed to project manage the delivery of the new Cambridge Children's Hospital, joining a wider design team as the project progresses into technical design

Healthy Happy Places programme: NHSPS funds therapeutic community garden

Shields Health Hub has received funding from NHS Property Services (NHSPS) for its therapeutic community garden part of the Healthy Happy Places programme

Modernising mental health services: Labour's tech priorities

Clinical Director of Access Health, Vicky Mudd, looks at the ways technology can help modernise mental health services

Priory builds on longstanding Ashtons partnership with new contract and "e-Works" solution access

Mental health service provider Priory has signed a five-year contract with Ashtons for its new e-Works electronic prescribing and medicines management solution, continuing its longstanding partnership

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Design in Mental Health announces programme of free content for June event

New Design and Digital Solutions Theatre will provide expert presentations and Q+A on a range of digital, safety and design topics

Collaboration: The key to successful NHS refurbishments

Why early engagement and communication drive better outcomes in healthcare projects

Last chance to enter 2025 Design in Mental Health Awards

Celebrating best practice and innovation in mental healthcare

Shaping the Future of Mental Health Environments: Conference Programme Announced

Design in Mental Health 2025 has unveiled its eagerly anticipated Conference programme, setting the stage for the most influential event in the sector’s calendar. Taking...

Why excellent fitted furniture matters in mental health facilities

Transforming mental health facilities into therapeutic havens through thoughtful furniture design

Vale Secure launches new Vale Window System U for mental healthcare settings

The new Vale Window System U is the latest product launch of Vale Secure for the mental healthcare industry

Staff wellness and engagement

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Irish mental health hospital chooses Civica software

Saint John of God Hospital will use patient record platform to deliver safer, streamlined inpatient and outpatient services

Barts wellbeing hubs in East and North London

Located across five London hospitals are spaces for relaxation and renewal dedicated to the wellbeing of everyone who works and volunteers at Barts NHS Trust hospitals,...

Royal Marsden first to offer Careology app to improve cancer support services

Hospital to roll out software to teenagers and young adults living with cancer

Empowering young people with digital mental health tools

NHS Gloucestershire rolls out mental health support finder, increasing access to services for vulnerable young people

NHS Dumfries and Galloway implements Civica occupational health platform

Health board will implement Civica’s OPAS-G2 cloud platform to improve the wellbeing of 8,000 employees