Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust install new doorsets and closures to combat safety and durability issues

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides integrated mental health services in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, and also provides community health services in Enfield. They look after people’s mental and physical health in hospitals or in the community, and provide a range of mental health services for young people and adults

They required new doorsets as their existing double-leaf corridor doors with surface mounted, scissor-arm closers presented a ligature risk and were regularly over-opened, causing damage. Plus, the leaves were vandalised, requiring regular repainting.

Care provider: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Project type: Refurbishment
Mental Health Discipline: Low secure integrated Mental Health and Community Health Services, managed directly with client

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The Challenge

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust required new doorsets as their existing double-leaf corridor doors with surface mounted, scissor-arm closers presented a ligature risk and were regularly over-opened, causing damage. Plus, the leaves were vandalised, requiring regular repainting.

Another challenge was that the doors were to be installed in a live ward, so speed of installation was important

The Solution

They chose our Symphony corridor doorsets as the perfect replacement (extra-wide, single leaf doorsets).

Offering superior safety and durability

Installing our single-leaf doorsets with concealed hold-open closers offered superior safety for service users by reducing the ligature risk.

Using a vandal-resistant PVC facing also helped to brighten the space and minimise regular maintenance costs.

Rapid installation

Because upgrades in a live ward environment can be particularly challenging, our doorsets are designed for rapid-install, minimising the need for service user decant.

We removed and replaced three corridor doorsets for the trust in just one day in a live ward environment.