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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

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Digitisation, sustainability and social value: Flashback to the 2024 BBH Awards

Relive the Building Better Healthcare Awards with us!
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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

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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

What it was like on the floor at Design In Mental Health 2024

Design In Mental Health is an annual exhibition, conference, and awards focused on the built environments around mental health patients. Editor, Sophie Bullimore, attended and reports on what was to be seen at the 2024 outing

Mental health trust is set to roll out conversational AI chatbot from EBO

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is set to roll out EBO Intelligent Patient Portal (IPP) with AI-powered two-way conversation chatbot

Greater Manchester Combined Authority commissions PwC to aid WorkWell Partnership following PM’s plan to tackle ‘sick note culture’

Greater Manchester Combined Authority has commissioned PwC to support it with elements of the development of a Greater Manchester WorkWell Partnership, part of a new health and employment government scheme

Kier and Medical Architecture collaborate on psychiatric ICU for children

Medical Architecture has designed a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Psychiatric ICU for Dorset HealthCare, which is being built by Kier

Time capsule is buried in IHP’s new £105.9m mental heath institute site

A time capsule has been buried at the construction site in Manchester to preserve the history of Park House, and memories of the North Manchester area

Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker attends grand opening of NHS mental health centre

Arsenal Academy Manager, Per Mertesacker, joined staff and service users in Islington to celebrate the opening of North London Mental Health Partnership’s new integrated community mental health centre

BitePRO launches anti-ligature clothing range STRONGTEX

STRONGTEX has been designed to hinder the wearer’s ability to create a long enough piece of ligature to attach to an anchor point, or from swallowing a ligature

Integrated technology improves Mersey Care NHS Trust's mental health services

Access HSC integration between Rio electronic patient record (EPR) and Elemental social prescribing software has improved mental health services

Older People's Mental Health Service commended by NHS England

West London NHS Trust’s Older People's Mental Health Service (OPMHS) has been recognised by NHS England

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Why excellent fitted furniture matters in mental health facilities

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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

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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

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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

Alder Hey launches ‘one-stop shop’ mental health platform

First-of-a-kind app provides a single point of access to young people's mental health services

Mersey trust first site to go live with game-changing system integration

Mental health provider to integrate Access HSC’s Rio EPR and Elemental social prescribing software

Shaping the future of acute care in Leeds

People with learning disabilities and autism give their views on the design of new hospitals in Leeds

Supporting mental health awareness in facility management employees

In this article, Artic shares how to improve work culture with mental health awareness in the facilities management industry