The Trust’s not-for-profit community interest company, Compass Wellbeing CIC, has been shortlisted in the ‘Early Intervention and Prevention for Children, Young People and Families’ category. This is for its role in transforming youth mental health through partnerships with voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations, in a programme commissioned by the NCEL Collaborative. Last financial year, Compass distributed £1.5 million in funding to 51 VCFSEs, delivering community-based mental health support to over 10,000 children and young people across 13 boroughs.
The East of England Provider Collaborative, a partnership of six specialist mental health and learning disability providers across the region, has been shortlisted in the ‘Mental Health Innovation of the Year’ category. As a key partner within the Collaborative, ELFT has played a significant role in transforming care for people with eating disorders across the East of England. Through innovative collaboration and service improvement, the partnership has enhanced access to specialist support, reduced waiting times for treatment, and shortened inpatient stays, delivering better outcomes and experiences for patients while ensuring more timely and effective care.
The Trust’s Talking Therapies service in Newham is a finalist in the ‘NHS Race Equality Award’ for its faith-adapted therapies project for Muslim residents in the borough. The project achieved improved recovery outcomes and reduced health inequalities amongst Bangladeshi, Pakistani and wider Muslim communities by introducing an evidenced based form of faith-adapted CBT, increasing engagement in the community through collaboration with partners and our working together group, including group sessions in local mosques and appearance on Muslim media platforms.
ELFT, Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, East of England Community Trust and the East of England Ambulance Service are also in the running for the ‘Transforming Care for Older People Award’. Together, teams have created an innovative model of care that brings specialist frailty expertise into the community, helping older people receive rapid assessment and treatment at home while avoiding unnecessary hospital attendance and admission.
Finally, the Trust alongside the University of Bristol is shortlisted for the ‘NHS Communications Initiative of the Year’ for the creation of a behaviour-change film to improve the experiences of autistic people in hospital. The Trust’s Art Therapies team partnered with Inner Eye Productions (a culture-change film organisation that aims to make a positive difference to people’s lives) for the university’s ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare’ project. The film was co-produced with ELFT service users.
Winners of the HSJ Awards will be announced at the ceremony on Thursday 19 November at Evolution London.