North East London NHS Foundation Trust

North East London NHS Foundation Trust
TypeNHS foundation trust
Established5 June 2000
HeadquartersMarsh Way
Rainham
RM13 8GQ[1]
HospitalsGoodmayes Hospital
Staff6,405 (2019/20)[2]
Websitewww.nelft.nhs.uk
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North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) is an NHS foundation trust which provides mental and community health services. It runs Foxglove Ward, Goodmayes Hospital and Sunflowers Court in Ilford, Phoenix House in Basildon, Heronwood & Galleon Inpatient Facility in Wanstead, Grays Court Community Hospital in Dagenham, and Hawkwell Court in Chingford. Altogether it operates from more than 150 sites.

History

The Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre, built on the site of the former Thorpe Coombe Hospital

The trust was established as the North East London Mental Health NHS Trust on 5 June 2000, and became operational on 1 April 2001. It became an NHS foundation trust in 2008.[3]

In April 2014 Staff at Hawkwell Court in Colvin Gardens, Chingford planned to shut down the facility, which offers long-term stay for older patients suffering from mental health problems and learning disabilities. It was saved from closure a decade ago after relatives of service users and Chingford MP Iain Duncan Smith intervened.[4]

In April 2014 as part of the redevelopment of Goodmayes Hospital it closed and proposed to demolish the Goodmayes Hospital Staff Social Club, provoking a protest from Mr Fin Robinson. He was supposed to hand the keys back but said he will remain inside, with the doors chained shut, "until they do the right thing".[5]

Services

30 Coleridge Road in Walthamstow

The trust provides community health and mental health services, including forensic services, psychiatric intensive care units and services for people with learning difficulties in the North East London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, as well as some services for people in Essex and Kent.[6]

Patient entertainment

Goodmayes Hospital has an in-house hospital radio service operated by[7]

The first Hospital Radio on the site was founded in 1977 and named Goodmayes Hospitals radio Association with studios located within the original Goodmayes Hospital building. In 2004 the station's on-air name is 'The Jumbo Sound'.[8] In April 2016, Goodmayes Hospital Radio Assocstion voted to merge with Bedrock Hospital Radio, following financial difficulties following [9] caused by a failed radiator.

Performance

The trust NELFT took over children and young people's specialist and targeted mental health services in Kent in 2017. In May 2018 there were 3,869 young people in Kent waiting for treatment. 144 had been waiting more than a year, with 19 more in Medway. 1,481 had been waiting for more than 18 weeks for treatment to start.[10] In 2019 the Trust was downgraded by the CQC from Good to Requires Improvement. [11]

There have been numerous deaths as a result of NELFT's failings. In the first half of 2021 alone, there was a coroner who found failings in the care of Paul Tufton leading to his death. [12] In May an inquest found neglect in the care of Neil Challinor-Mooney, again leading to a death. [13] In June, Ellis Murphy-Richards' suicide was deemed to have been because of failings in care. [14] In July, Anita Mandalia took an overdose as a result of NELFT failing to refer her for mental health treatment.[15] There have been hundreds of NELFT's mental health patients who have gone missing; in the two years prior to 2020, 100+ such patients went missing. [16]

NELFT, together with Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and other mental health providers are subject an independent inquiry set up by Parliament [17] into mental health services in Essex following numerous failings of these services. The inquiry is now in progress.[18]

See also

  • List of NHS trusts

References

  1. ↑ "Contact us". North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "Annual report and Accounts 2019-20". North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "The North East London Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "Hawkwell Court in Chingford is to close as staff are not equipped to deal with patients' growing needs despite good standards in latest inspection". Chingford Guardian. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Manager of Goodmayes Hospital social club locks himself inside to protest against its closure". Ilford Recorder. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Inspection report - North East London NHS Foundation Trust" (PDF). Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Bedrock Radio". Bedrock.
  8. ↑ "History of Bedrock Radio". Bedrock.
  9. ↑ "water damage Radio". Bedrock.
  10. ↑ "Harm assessments after 160 children wait more than a year for mental health treatment". Health Service Journal. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "CQC rates North East London NHS Foundation Trust as Requires Improvement". CQC. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  12. ↑ "NHS trust 'neglected' mental health patient". Waltham Forest Echo. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  13. ↑ "Inquest finds neglect contributed to death of vulnerable Romford man". Ilford Recorder. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  14. ↑ "Ellis Murphy-Richards: NHS care questioned over suicide". BBC. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  15. ↑ "Ilford mother 'could have been saved' and NHS 'failed' her, family tells inquest". Ilford Recorder. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  16. ↑ "More than 100 patients have gone missing from mental health hospitals in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge". Ilford Recorder. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  17. ↑ "Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry: Terms of Reference". Hansard. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  18. ↑ "Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry Homepage". EMHII. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
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