What is it about?
It is widely acknowledged in hospitals that the quality of design and environment can influence the quality of patient care, the sense of therapeutic security and the experience of staff. This women’s PICU collaborated with the charity Hospital Rooms to realise the valuable role of art within the clinical environment. Experienced artists were commissioned to work in genuine partnership with patients and staff to re-envision the physical environment with the installation of eight imaginative, inventive and PICU compliant art works.
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Why is it important?
By working across sectors, this project By working across sectors, this project demonstrated how parity can be created for mental health environments and thus for patients of mental health services. demonstrated how parity can be created for mental health environments and thus for patients of mental health services.
Perspectives
This project has significantly enhanced the quality of care provided to our patients in the psychiatric intensive care unit. The patients, artists and clinicians have worked together to create something quite extraordinary.
Dr Faisil N Sethi
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
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This page is a summary of: Art and mental health in the women’s psychiatric intensive care unit, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, January 2019, NAPICU (National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units),
DOI: 10.20299/jpi.2019.015.
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