Patients at Sunflowers Court (our mental health inpatient unit) are benefitting from new outdoor gym equipment thanks to the Friends of Goodmayes.

Our Informatics team will be carrying out IT network maintenance on Saturday 11 August between 00:01 and 06:00 hours. It has been scheduled for this time to provide minimal disruption to staff and services.

Sue Burke, Acting Head of Integrated Community Services in Basildon and Brentwood has been given the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse (QN) by The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).

Congratulations to our equality and diversity manager, Harjit K Bansal and our EMN network who have been nominated for 2 awards at this year's Inclusive Companies Awards.

Congratulations to Rebekah Bewsey and the team at Brookside who won the RCNi Mental Health Practice Award last night (4 July).

Last night (4 July) one of our school nurses was invited to a reception with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in order to celebrate NHS70.

We are delighted to announce four of our staff have been recognised as inspirational women leaders across the NHS in London.

To mark the NHS celebrating its 70^th birthday, NELFT will host a NHS 7tea party and seminar event which will take place at the Pod in CEME Centre, Marsh Way, Rainham, Essex, RM13 8GQ on Thursday 5 July

In our latest NELFT Talks post Dr Samir Shah, consultant older adult psychiatrist and lead clinician with our Waltham Forest Diagnostic Memory Service, talks about how he was asked to be a clinical advisor and co-writer on 'Abdullah and Leilah', the world’s first transcultural drama about the effects of dementia. Dr Shah also talks about our plans as a trust to showcase this film as an educational resource for NHS staff.

As part of the NHS70 celebrations, Queens Nurse and specialist school nurse (Redbridge) Pat Beverley reflects on her visit to 10 Downing Street, meeting the Prime Minister and her career highlights to date for our latest NELFTtalks blog.

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.