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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 along with Essex and Kent. Visit our services.
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NELFT Annual Plan 2024-25
NELFT Annual Plan 2024-25 is now live! Find out about our Trust strategy and read our Annual plan by visiting our Trust strategy page
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Work for us
We are a high performing Trust, rated Good with the CQC and in a good position financially. Visit our dedicated careers website for information and our latest job vacancies.
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Talking Therapies service
Work stress? Money worries? Difficulty sleeping? Feeling low? We're here to help.
Speak to one of our therapists for support on taking care of your mental health and wellbeing. Visit our Talking Therapies service. -
Visit our London CAMHS services
Find out how we can help support your child to take care of their mental health.
News
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We know change is needed. But we also know that many of the solutions we need are already here, working somewhere in the NHS today. Help build a health service fit for the future.
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NELFT in collaboration with East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) and Oxleas held an event focused on the experience of Black men in mental healthcare.
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The NELFT NHS Charity (previously known as The Health Way Foundation) funds projects that improve service user environments, support patient activities and enhance staff wellbeing.
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Act F.A.S.T. Call 999 if you see any single one of the signs of a stroke. There are around 100,000 strokes in England, Scotland and Wales every year,8 with around 33,000 stroke related deaths each year,9 as well as being a leading cause of disability*.
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Final preparations are being made for the opening of a new health and wellbeing hub in Hornchurch as it gears up to welcome its first patients next week.
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Following the success of the Significant 7+ in care homes, NELFT has extended this training to carers in the community.
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School children from Hunters Hall Primary School in Dagenham have contributed drawings for an animation to raise awareness of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). -
The department of Health and Social Care has alerted us that there is a national supply disruption of the medication prescribed to help manage your ADHD symptoms.
Blogs
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Since last April NELFT along with East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) and partners across NEL have been running NHS 111 option 2 for mental health, to ensure people experiencing crises can access support 24/7.
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The autism workshops that brought me closer to my daughter (and helped me learn a thing or two about Taylor Swift!)
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Expert by experience, Louise Street, shares her recovery journey and talks about her work to co-produce innovative mental health services.
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Last week I had the privilege of attending an open day about Open Dialogue with local services, NHS trusts across the country but also researchers from all over the world – testament to the fact that the story of open dialogue is a global one, a truly global movement.
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On 5 July 2024, the NHS will mark 76 years of service. NELFT is taking the opportunity to share staff stories and the contributions they have made to the Trust and the NHS.
Satha Alaganandasundaram, who is a Finance Business Partnering Manager within NELFT’s Corporate Services, will soon be celebrating his 20th anniversary with the NHS.
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On 5 July 2024, the NHS will mark 76 years of service. NELFT is taking the opportunity to share staff stories and the contributions they have made to the Trust and to the NHS.
Isabel Robson has an extraordinary 50 years of service in the NHS and has spent 15 of those years at NELFT.
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As part of Pride Month, NELFT is encouraging allies of the LGBT+ community to get involved with Pride and the events taking place across the month.
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Sally Wemyss is a community staff nurse in our School Health team in Redbridge, she is a full-time carer to her daughter Sienna and has worked part time at NELFT for over 11 years.