Design and build
This section contains examples of plans, pictures of units and guidance for buildings of psychiatric inpatient units PICU.
 | Title: More than Just Staffing Numbers Published: September 2008 Summary: More Than Just Staffing Numbers - Gateway reference number: 10397. An acute mental health workforce planning and development good practice workbook. This workbook assists those involved in the review and development of their acute mental health workforce and is a companion document to Laying the Foundations (Gateway ref 9676) Action: NHS chief executives of all providers and commissioners of adult acute mental health services should consider in light of local planning arising from the Healthcare Commission’s report “The Pathway to Recovery” on acute inpatient mental health services. |
 | Title: Laying The Foundations Published: May 2008 Summary: Laying the foundations for better acute mental healthcare: A service redesign and capital investment workbook. This workbook assists those involved in the review, planning and re-design of their adult acute mental health services and informs any related capital development proposals. Action: This has particular relevance for all providers and commissioners of adult acute mental health services in light of the current Healthcare Commission’s inpatient service review. |
 | Title: Progress integrated service Published: 2006 Summary: Developing integrated acute services: Integrating acute in-patient ward and home treatment. Norfolk and Waveney mental health partnership. |
 | Title: Virtual Ward final template Published: December 2006 Summary: To produce a "spiritual SPACE" and to produce a spiritual assessment needs tool. To allocate and develop a room in a low secure psychiatric setting/PICU to act as a spiritual space, which will provide an appropriate resource to address spiritual needs and create expressive meaning. |
 | Title: Capacity demand effectiveness Published: July 2005 Summary: Increasing capacity of 24 hour acute care - by Fiona Macmillan and Nick Adams. Report for the Acute Care Forum (ACF). |
 | Title: LTF template Summary: Laying The Foundations - Defining specific service aims and outcomes. The table in this document is designed as a downloadable template to assist you in developing and defining the specific service aims and desired outcomes for your local service. |
 | Title: Holford House "SPACE" Summary: The aim of this project is to create a spiritual "SPACE" in Holford House a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based in Somerset. The project will build upon skills and knowledge gained from an existing spirituality project in 2002 that made recommendations from service users/survivors as to how mental health services have helped or hindered the spiritual and religious life of users/survivors. Title: Project aims and objectives Summary: SPACE - Spiritual use, Positive feelings, Activity to fulfil spiritual needs, Closeness to others and self, Environment. |
 | Title: Not just Bricks and Mortar Published: January 1998 Summary: Report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Working Party on the size, staffing, structure, siting, and security of new acute adult psychiatric in-patient units. |