We’ve been working with BRE over the past 2-3 years and intensively over the past couple of months developing an independent and repeatable format to assess new and existing products for use in Mental Health environments.
We believe there are significant benefits that come with this, not only the ability to spend more time considering the recovery aspects of a design and help de-risk specification of products for clients, but we hope it will help encourage innovation from the market, save money in terms of time spent reviewing products and testing them.
To find out more, please see here.
We’re in the final stages of presenting the business case to the board of BRE for their investment to develop the standards and we’d love to hear from you with the support for this development.
NHS & Private Providers
If you work in estates, capital or clinical at an NHS or private provider, would you request DIMHN/BRE tested products? Why? A brief email commenting on this with your job title would be great and go a long way.
Manufacturers
If you are a manufacturer, would you test your products? Why? What benefits do you see to your organisation with independent and repeatable product testing?
We’re looking for responses by the 15th of December – please send your supporting emails to admin@dimhn.org
