The London Mental 40 Health Fact Book Summary of main services provided by the Trust Main locations from which services are provided Key statistics about the Trust NELFT’s core area encompasses the London boroughs of Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, and Waltham Forest and the south west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. The population of over 1.5 million is culturally diverse and presents significant challenges. From November 2015, NELFT will provide the single, integrated Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service (EWMHS) for children across the whole of the county of Essex. NELFT provides a comprehensive range of mental health services to adults and children, from early intervention and psychological therapies to inpatient treatment or long-term rehabilitation. This includes services for people experiencing an acute mental illness; help for children and young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, care for people with dementia and other age related mental health conditions; support for people with problems associated with drug and alcohol misuse; and specialist services for people with a learning disability. NELFT also provides specialist programmes including, eating disorders and self-harm. A full list of NELFT services is available at www.nelft.nhs.uk. Most of NELFT’s mental health services are provided in the community. Mental health inpatient services are provided for at the state-of-the-art Sunflowers Court facility, opened in 2011. Sunflowers Court provides a 20-bed male inpatient ward, a 20-bed female inpatient ward, 20-bed older persons, 15-bed low secure in a therapeutic environment that assists patient feeling at ease, which results in reducing stress and the length of patient stay. Sunflowers Court, shortlisted for design awards, incorporates the latest thinking in mental health care, including innovative sanitary ware with wave sensor controls, anti-ligature ironmongery and light fittings. Outside space is accessible for all units, including our gardens and enclosed roof terrace. NELFT also provides inpatient and day services for adolescents at our specialist younger people’s mental health facility, Brookside, in Goodmayes. Brookside has an in-house school, which ensures service users continue with their education and national exams. NELFT has around 6,000 staff in about 200 locations across north east London and south west Essex. NELFT has 226 inpatient mental health beds, the lowest in London, highlighting the focus to avoid hospital admission where possible and to treat people in their own homes. There are also two S136 suites. In 2014/15, NELFT had 93,171 mental health and community health service occupied inpatient bed days. 92% of mental health service users are extremely likely or likely to recommend the Trust’s home treatment to family and friends. 70 % of service users are extremely likely or likely to recommend the Trust’s inpatient ward care to family and friends.
London Mental Health Fact Bbook
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