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NELFT Clinical Nurse Specialist Emma Selby has joined the inaugural 2018 NHS Digital Fellowship. The programme will see 23 digital advocates, who all work in the NHS, embark on an exciting new scheme to transform care and deliver better outcomes for their patients.

The Royal College of Nursing has nominated two NELFT nurses for the prestigious Nurse Awards. Geraldine Rodgers (Associate Director of Nursing, Clinical Effectiveness and Fellow for Older People) has been shortlisted in the Nursing Older People category and Emma Berry (Interim Young Persons Home Treatment Team Manager) for the Mental Health Practice award.

Coping Through Football, an innovative project that helps people with mental health problems to get their lives back on track, was commended by The Football Association on reaching its 10-year anniversary at a special ceremony at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday 18 April.

NELFT has launched the latest BrowseAloud accessibility software on the Trust website. The new service began on Monday 16 April and is accessible to the public, service users, carers and our staff. It is aimed at people with learning difficulties, dyslexia,  mild visual impairments and those with English as a second language.

A project in Barking and Dagenham has been nominated for an award. The work of the Physical Health Care for patients with Psychosis (PHCP) project has been shortlisted in the Health Initiative of the Year for this year’s Chemist and Druggist Awards.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, NELFT staff in Havering will be present at the ‘Big Event’ in Romford Market on Friday 18 May.

As of Monday 9 April 2018, NELFT has commenced the provision and delivery of the Urgent Care Centre services at Whipps Cross Hospital.

NELFT staff members celebrated the completion of the Quality Improvement Facilitators Programme – Cohort 5 with their graduation day recently. The event was held at the CEME Centre in Rainham on Wednesday 28 March. It gave the latest cohort of facilitators the opportunity to present their projects to attendees, as well as celebrate their graduation and for them to receive their certificates.

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.