Young people who are supported by EWMHS in Essex have produced a short film about mental health issues as part of the Into Film Moving Minds project.

Our cohort of health care assistants who commenced their assistant practitioner training at Angela Ruskin University (ARU) in 2016 and have now successfully passed.

We are pleased to announce that we have now attained 'Achievement level' in the Healthy Workplace Charter.

 

A message from the NELFT EMN ambassadors and the equality, diversity and inclusion team.

NELFT is excited to announce that our perinatal parent-infant mental health service within north-east London will be expanding its existing services.

Patients in our older adult and frailty wards, Stage and Cook, at Sunflowers Court inpatient unit in Goodmayes were visited by Pets As Therapy (PAT), a national charity founded in 1983 who look to enhance health and wellbeing in the community through visits of trusted volunteers with their behaviourally assessed animals.

Patients on Stage ward at Sunflowers Court inpatient unit in Goodmayes have created a piece of artwork as a Remembrance Day tribute.

The NELFT medical education team hosted an older adults special interest educational afternoon with a difference on Thursday 1 November.

Heather Lloyd, a community mental health nurse from NELFT Kent Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service is currently working with the Porchlight Adolescent Wellbeing Service (PAWS) - a service for young people and their families living in Thanet. Here Heather tells us more about her work with the team and the difference it is making in the area. 

Marc Kingsley works as a consultant clinical psychologist within our clinical health psychological services and he is also a registered psychotherapist. In our latest NELFT talks post, Marc discusses the risk of suicide in palliative care and for end of life patients.

Hello my name is Alice. I’ve been an apprentice here at NELFT since September 2017 after finishing my BA in Creative Writing. I work as a Library Assistant at Aubrey Keep Library in Goodmayes.

In the Christmas of 2008, John Wickens sadly took his own life in Stratford, leaving his family and his wife Deborah ‘Debbie’ Wickens behind. Today, as part of World Suicide Prevention Day, Debbie shares her story with us about:

• How she cared for John through his struggles
• How her life has changed since that fateful day
• How she uses her experiences to support her patients within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
• Her plans to mark the 10 year anniversary. 

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.