Wednesday 10 Apr | 10:00-16:00

East London NHS FT (ELFT) is a provider of mental health, community health and primary care to approximately 1.7 million people across Bedfordshire, Luton and East London – within some of the most deprived and diverse communities in the country. This experience day will give you the chance to deep dive into two aspects of the Trust’s work with its local communities.

ELFT is the largest provider of homeless health services in England, serving a community in East London who is not able to register with a GP – who may be homeless, seeking asylum, sex workers, trafficked etc. The visit will show how our specialist primary care teams work with this community, and local community and faith organisations, in order to understand and meet the health needs of this vulnerable population, and to address the social determinants of health.

The experience day will also dive into how ELFT is tackling some of the drivers of poor health, such as poverty and unemployment through becoming a ‘Marmot’ Trust and anchor institution. We will explore the work of Compass Wellbeing – a community-interest company that has built links with 6000 third sector organisations in the six boroughs in which we operate. Compass wellbeing supports almost 200 small local organisations to work with ELFT in the delivery of services, enabling over 800 community organisations to access training, research and population health skills, and enabling employment opportunities for over 100 people with severe mental illness.