Last week (6 June, 7 June and 8 June) our CAMHS services in Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering held stakeholder engagement events to announce its new approach to delivering its service.

Our Brookside team, who provide mental healthcare for young people, have been announced as finalists in the 2018 RCNi Nurse Awards, the UK’s most prestigious nursing accolade.

Geraldine Rodgers and the Significant 7 project, set up to support care home staff to improve the physical health care of older people, have been shortlisted for a prestigious RCNi nurse award.

NELFT is delighted to announce the launch of its newest digital platform on 11^th June, 2018.  

The app was created in partnership with young people… for young people, to empower them to make positive decisions concerning their mental health, and provides a vast array of resources as part of their support.

NELFT celebrated its 10^th anniversary on Friday 1 June. The organisation had previously been called NELMHT (North East London Mental Health Trust) before obtaining Foundation Trust status in 2008. NELMHT was formed in 2001, when the mental health services that had previously been provided by several other NHS organisations were combined into one specialist mental health trust.

To help mark the NHS’s 70th birthday, the NHS has teamed up with parkrun UK to jointly host NHS70 parkrun day on Saturday 9 June. The parkruns were launched nationally by double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes and are totally free, 5km events that take place in hundreds of locations across the UK every Saturday morning. They are coordinated entirely by volunteers and are open to walkers and runners of all ages and abilities.

Care City alongside the BHR Provider Alliance has committed to rolling out its Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Pathway across Barking, Havering & Redbridge, working with local community pharmacies and hospitals to find and treat AF and prevent strokes.

The NELFT Finance department received an accolade recently from the NHS Finance Leadership Council (FLC). The Council awarded NELFT Future Focused Finance Level 1 accreditation. Currently, only NHS Improvement and NELFT have this level of accreditation in London. The accreditation was launched in December 2016 and aims to demonstrate the organisation’s commitment to the development of finance skills across the workforce.

Jacqui Van Rossum, Executive Integrated Care Director for London and Executive Lead for the NELFT LGBT+ society talks about our new rainbow lanyard scheme and what this represents for our trust.

Hello, my name is Ryan Chawner and I am an accounts apprentice here at NELFT. I started my level 2 AAT Apprenticeship with a recruitment firm in the finance department in September 2015. I passed my Level 2 AAT and then moved on to NELFT in November 2016 to start my Level 3 Apprenticeship, which I will explain why later on in this blog. I have wanted to become an accountant since I was about 14 years old.

Following the publication of the NHS Providers State of Communications report last month, Carrie-Ann Wade, director of communications, marketing and engagement, reflects on the role of communications within an NHS Provider trust and the impact that communications professionals can have on the delivery of trust objectives.

Hello, my name is Rhian Webb and I joined NELFT on 5 January 2016, when I started the Advanced Apprenticeship in Business Admin with the Medical Education team. When I first joined NELFT, I had just turned 19 and had just finished my last year of Sixth Form and completed my A Levels. Even after completing my A Levels at sixth form, I still didn’t really know what career path I wanted to take - but NELFT provided me with the first step to that ladder. I have since completed my apprenticeship at NELFT in April 2017 and have now moved up a role in my team to become a ‘Medical Education Co-ordinator’ in just 16 months of working in NELFT as an apprentice.

A blog written by Cassandra Sharp from Basildon Integrated Community Team about the process of registering to become a nurse in the UK

Mental health services are often described as the Cinderella service of the NHS. Despite being promised resources and transformation, her child called CAMHS, remains very poor and much neglected.

I am delighted to be writing my first #NELFTtalks blog post, particularly as it feels like there is an amazing sense of new energy in the organisation right now. It is a great time to be launching a new way to engage with people who are interested in NELFT.