In March 2020, ELFT agreed a transformational new vision for Research & Innovation (R&I) over the next five years to help deliver both the Trust’s Strategy and the national ambition for health research as integral to improving NHS care and patient outcomes. Its aims are to transform Research and Innovation into a corporate function supporting our services to deliver their improvement agenda, and broaden the spectrum of what we mean by ‘Research’ to include not just clinical research trials, but also service evaluations, case studies, audit, and Quality Improvement.
R&I Improving Healthcare
is the first approach that has been specifically developed to make routine patient-clinician meetings therapeutically effective. It is based on quality of life research, concepts of patient-centred communication, IT developments and components of solution-focused therapy, and is supported by an App. Research studies in different mental health services and multiple countries have shown that using DIALOG+ can improve patients’ quality of life.
is a research study comparing group arts therapies with group talking therapy. The aim is to see if group arts therapies are effective for people with different types of mental illness.
Patients with MUS often have unmet health needs due to the complex nature of their conditions. In 2014 The Trust began looking at innovative solutions to meet the needs of these patients in Newham. The project explored how to best develop an integrated care pathway across East London for patients with functional bodily distress symptoms.
is a research programme that aims to develop and evaluate a new intervention to help patients with psychosis to overcome social isolation and improve their quality of life.
aims to develop and test a new intervention for people with chronic depression. The intervention (called DIALOG+) is delivered via an app (either on a tablet computer or smartphone) and makes use of cutting edge quality of life research, technological developments and therapeutic knowledge to try and improve quality of life for people with long lasting depression.
The VOLUME (Volunteering in mental health care for people with psychosis) programme aimed to systematically evaluate the benefits of befriending schemes for both patients and volunteers.