title: Aiding recovery and changing perceptions.
abstract: Next month (14-15 May) will see staged at Birmingham's National Motorcycle Museum the first in a planned new series of Design in Mental Health Conference and Exhibition events. Here Joe Forster, a highly experienced mental health nurse practitioner, and chair of the Design in Mental Health Network, which has brought together designers and users of mental healthcare facilities since 2005, and James Lee, event director at Step Exhibitions, explain why the Network was established, and outline some of the key features visitors to this exciting new sector-specific event can look forward to.
authors.affiliation: Design in Mental Health Network.
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom