Trust policies

The policies listed below apply to all NELFT services including mental health services, North East London Community Health Services (Waltham Forest, Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge) and South West Essex Community Services.

In situations where a policy has gone past the review date, it will remain valid, until it has been reviewed and the new one published on the Trust website or staff intranet.

• Safeguarding children
• Safeguarding adults
• Cold Weather Plan
• Emergency preparedness and resilience
• Flood Plan
• Influenza Pandemic Response Procedures
• Major incident response
• On call manager and senior manager
• Complaints
• Whistleblowing
• Information Governance
• Central Alert System
• Serious incident Reporting policy

All other policies and procedures remain valid and staff should follow the existing policy for their business unit.

Policy on policies - revised August 2012

Policy Template - Revised

Guidance for completion of policy/document - August 2012