Jenny Gill

Jenny is an experienced healthcare planner specialising in the field of mental health. She has a background in Mental Health NHS Management and has been involved in the mental health sector for over two decades. Jenny has been involved in the design of many mental health facilities and was commissioned by the Department of Health as technical author for the Health Building Note (HBN) 03-01 (2013) – Adult acute mental health units and HBN 03-02 – Facilities for child and adolescent mental health services (2017). She also led the DiMHN input to the joint work undertaken with NAPICU (National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care and low secure units) publication ‘Design Guidance for Psychiatric Intensive Care Units’ (2017). Jenny spent 7 years as Chairman of DiMHN, recently retired and has accepted the honorary role of Chair Emeritus.