We are delighted to announce that NELFT won two RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) awards on Friday 3 December 2021 for our work on disability initiatives at NELFT.

This Friday 3 December, is International Day for People with Disabilities. 

To show our support and to mark the event, our EDI Team and our Disability Staff Network are delivering an inspiring and informative session for NELFT staff. The aim is to help create a shift in the way we think about disability and to build allyship between people who are disabled and people who are not disabled. Active allyship is at the heart of disability equality, particularly in the workplace.

Professor Oliver Shanley OBE attends his last JNCC with Staffside in CEME.

Basildon Council officially bestowed the Freedom of Entry to the Borough to NELFT at an awards ceremony celebrating extraordinary services to residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

A super week for NELFT with three nominatons and two wins in national prestigious awards. 

On Monday 15November, NELFT had the pleasure of being invited by The Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association for Greater London, to attend this year’s Royal Gun Salute in honour of the 73rd birthday of HRH Prince of Wales.

Matthew McArdle is a Senior Pharmacist here at NELFT, working in our Essex CAMHS service.  He will be carrying out a range of activities over the coming months in an attempt to raise money for mental health issues, particularly in children.

Self Care Week is the annual national event that raises awareness of what we can all do to improve our physical health and mental wellbeing. This year, the theme is Practise Self Care for Life.

This Saturday (13 November) is World Kindness Day, celebrated annually, participants attempt to make the world a better place by celebrating and promoting good deeds and pledging acts of kindness, either as individuals or as organisations.

Why not mark the occasion with a random act of kindness, perhaps you could leave one of our patients or service users a message to brighten up their day.

Mental health services for children and young people across Essex, Southend and Thurrock have been secured for another seven years.

Since September 2018, the London Digital IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) team has been working on several projects to improve service users' digital access to IAPT/Talking therapies. The Covid-19 crisis has been a difficult period for Londoners and has led to a rise in mental health needs for the population.

As part of Move for Movember 2021, Matt Chapman, our Barking and Dagenham Talking Therapies Exercise Coordinator, will be completing 60km of exercise. That’s 60km for the 60 men that we lose to suicide each hour, every hour across the world.

An art initiative involving patients from Goodmayes Hospital opens to the public on Wednesday 3 November and runs to Saturday 4 December, 11am – 5pm. 

AHPs’ Day, Thursday 14 October, is an annual opportunity for us to come together and celebrate being part of the AHP family, whilst also giving us an opportunity to showcase to our NELFT colleagues the impact we make to the delivery of high quality care.

October is Black History Month and here at NELFT we're excited to mark this important month with celebration events, highlights on the work of our EMN and profiles of our NELFT colleagues. We will be hearing from network members and some of our allies, who will be sharing around this year’s theme ‘Proud to be’.