North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) provides a range mental health and community health services across the north east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and in south west Essex
The Trust provides care and treatment for around 1.5million children, adults and older people each year.
Mental Health Services use the ‘recovery approach’ and include:
specialist inpatient and community-based treatment and care for people experiencing acute mental illness
help for children and young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties; care for people with dementia; care for people with learning disabilities
support for people with problems associated with drug and alcohol misuse.
The Trust also provides specialist mental health services such as Eating Disorders and Parent Infant Perinatal services, which helps and cares for mothers and mums-to-be who suffer post natal depression.
North East London NHS Foundation Trust is a national Department of Health demonstrator site for personality disorders and is a centre for dementia research, making the Trust a leading national provider of specialist mental healthcare.
The Trust is committed to the highest standards of care and involves service users and carers in Trust business, staff training and on recruitment panels.
It also involves service users in a range of events that promote the benefits of overall good physical health on mental health, including its annual sports day.
NELFT is delighted to support this project with the positive approach to mental health it promotes.
