Last Saturday (15 June) saw the annual Essex Pride celebration and Team NELFT were there to celebrate, along with raising awareness of our services in Essex and our current job opportunities

The Make a Difference initiative is a staff recognition scheme, which started in 2015 to celebrate staff that continuously makes a difference in their roles within the Trust.  

Rita Thakaria, assistant director community care and crisis, has been announced as one of the judges for the 2019 HSJ awards

This year, the NELFT LGBT+ network will be attending the Essex Pride event in Central Park, Chelmsford. Read on to find out how you can join us to celebrate Pride in Essex.

To mark National Volunteers Week, we heard from Loredana Fartade, a volunteer with our Havering talking therapies service and our volunteers team, to share her experience

On Wednesday 15 May clinical staff from across NELFT, along with mental health ambassadors, came together to celebrate Nurses Day and mark the contribution that our nurses make to our service users and our local communities.

NELFT has appointed Professor Oliver Shanley OBE as the interim chief executive following the news that John Brouder, current NELFT chief executive is moving on.

Colleagues from Barts Health, Macmillan Cancer Support, Healthwatch Waltham Forest and Alzheimer’s society joined NELFT at the Dementia Hub on Sidmouth Road, Waltham Forest this week this as part of Dying matters week.   

This year sees the learning disability branch of nursing celebrate 100 years. As we celebrate this milestone Stephanie Dawe, our chief nurse, talks about the importance of maintaining this workforce through student placements, as well as applauding and showing our own appreciation to all learning disability nurses currently working within NELFT.

In our recent NELFT Talks blog Dr Ranjot Bhogal, a chartered clinical psychologist working with our Redbridge Talking Therapies service, shares her story of her families' experiences with mental illness. Dr Bhogal also shares her views on the similarities and differences in the presentation of mental ill-health within the Eastern and Western communities.

For Dying Matters week Carolyn Doyle, senior programme lead for the Waltham Forest End of Life Care service, kindly shares her story of how she supported her friend Nell, who was dying from bowel cancer, through "end of life".

If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this blog, or you would like to get in touch with one of our end of life care teams, please contact your local team using the details in the blog

Following my last blog post discussing our NELFT staff networks and the support we have put in place for our staff, I thought it only fitting to write about our staff reward and recognition scheme and our end of year staff celebration.

As part of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, one of our patients has bravely shared her story on living with Anorexia Nervosa with us. 

If you would like to talk to our team about any of the issues raised in this interview, please visit https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/services-kent-medway-eating-disorders or call us on 0300 300 1980

This week has seen the publication of our NHS Staff Survey results for 2018. In the second of our 'Chairman's blog' pieces, trust chair Joe Fielder reflects on the results, the work we have been doing at NELFT and our plans for the future.

Registered Dietitians have an important role in Eating Disorder Treatment. They support patients through normalising a patient’s relationship with food, as well as optimising their nutritional needs.

In our latest NELFT Talks blog Kayley Rodway, a dietitian within our eating disorders service in Kent and Medway, shares an insight into her role and the important part dietitians play in supporting people living with eating disorders.

As an End of Life Care facilitator, Dorothy Pearlman finds herself having conversations about death on a daily basis, a topic that many of us can find harrowing just to think about. In our latest 'NELFTtalks' blog, Dorothy offers advice and support for older people and families during this difficult time, while also taking a look at Billy Connolly and his battle with Parkinson's.