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Welcome to NELFT
NELFT provides an extensive range of integrated community and mental health services for people living in the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and community health services for people living in the south west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock.
We provide an Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Service for children and young people across the whole of Essex.
We are also the provider of all age eating disorder services and child and adolescent mental health services across Kent and Medway
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Today is World Diabetes Day
This year's theme is all about celebrating everyone who makes your life that little bit easier every day.
- Learn more about diabetes by visiting our adult and children's diabetes services
- Learn more about our two award winning diabetes nurses in Basildon.
- Do you have someone you would like to say thank you to? Share your appreciation via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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Welcome to our brand new QI website
Learn more about our QI work at NELFT and find support and resources to help you with your QI journey.
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Come and work for us
We are a high performing trust, green with Monitor, CQC compliant and in a good position financially.
- View our full list of opportunities here
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Talking Therapies services
Work stress?
Money worries?
Difficulty sleeping?
Feeling low?We're here to help. Speak to one of our therapists in Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest for support on taking care of your mental health and wellbeing.
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NELFT to deliver Children's Integrated Therapies services across Barnet
As of Saturday 1 September, we will now be providing Barnet’s Children Integrated Therapies services.
- Find out more about the services on our website
- Need to speak to a member of staff? Call us on 0300 300 1821
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We did it!
From "Requires Improvement" to "Good", we are delighted to share our new rating from the Care Quality Commission following our Well-Led Review in October.
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Do you know someone who has made a difference to your care?
If you, or a loved one, have received fantastic service from one of our colleagues, show your appreciation by nominating them for a 'Make A Difference' award
- Complete a nomination form here
- Share your appreciation via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Our latest news
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Patients on Stage ward at Sunflowers Court inpatient unit in Goodmayes have created a piece of artwork as a Remembrance Day tribute.
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The NELFT medical education team hosted an older adults special interest educational afternoon with a difference on Thursday 1 November.
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Today (Tuesday 30 October) see another milestone in our QI journey at NELFT as we officially launch our brand new website
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Brookside, our young people’s mental health inpatient unit, has been awarded an accreditation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych).
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Care City is one of seven Test Beds selected for Wave 2 of the innovative health and care programme, focused on tackling the challenges laid out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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The Redbridge community suffers from varied Respiratory long term conditions ranging from COPD to pulmonary fibrosis.
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On 1 October NELFT launched a new service supporting patients who frequently present at Accident and Emergency (A&E) with physical health concerns but who do not usually require urgent care services.
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Last week, John Brouder, Cheif Executvie of NELFT, along with Barbara Armstrong, Sonia Smith and Michael Winspear attended an event held at the House of Commons to mark the lanuch of a new report that highlights how football can help people with severe mental health conditions have a better quality of life and better health.
NELFT Talks
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A blog written by Cassandra Sharp from Basildon Integrated Community Team about the process of registering to become a nurse in the UK