North East London NHS Foundation Trust

North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Headquarters CEME Centre, Rainham, London, England
Region served
Type NHS hospital trust
Chair Joe Fielder
Chief Exec John Brouder
Number of employees circa. 6000
Website www.nelft.nhs.uk

North East London NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community service operated by NHS Foundation Trust. 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.

In April 2014 Staff at Hawkwell Court in Colvin Gardens, Chingford planned to shut the facility, which offers long-term stay for older patients suffering from mental health problems and learning disabilities, down. It was saved from closure a decade ago after relatives of service users and Chingford MP Iain Duncan Smith intervened.[1]

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”.[2]

Patient entertainment

Goodmayes Hospital has an in-house hospital radio service operated by[3]

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'.[4]. In April 2016, Goodmayes Hospital Radio Assocstion voted to merge with Bedrock Hospital Radio, following financial difficulties following [5] 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.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Manager of Goodmayes Hospital social club locks himself inside to protest against its closure". Ilford Recorder. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Bedrock Radio". Bedrock.
  4. ↑ "History of Bedrock Radio". http://www.bedrockradio.org.uk/about/. Bedrock. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ "water damage Radio". http://www.bedrockradio.org.uk/about/. Bedrock. External link in |website= (help)
  6. ↑ "Harm assessments after 160 children wait more than a year for mental health treatment". Health Service Journal. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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