For mental health crisis support outside of these areas please call NHS 111 & ask for Option 2 for mental health. For more information visit the NHS information page here.
Keeping Well and Healthy - Changes in the Weather
How to stay well in winter (NHS)
Heatwave - How to cope in hot weather (NHS)
Keeping Well and Healthy - Smoking advice & Vitamin D
See our Smokefree in East London leaflet below
See our Vitamin D information below
Medicines
For further information please contact elft.communications@nhs.net
Mental Health
Royal College of Psychiatrists Mental Health leaflets - A broad range of mental health conditions and their treatment explained. Also available in other languages and scripts.
Information about mental health conditions for people with learning difficulties - from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Outpatients with Learning Disabilities
Please contact elft.communications@nhs.net for further information.
Patients' Rights
Advance Directive for Mental Health
An advance directive is a way for service users to make their views known before a crisis, when they may be unable to make informed choices.
See our Easy Read Information on Advance Decision Making below.
Information about Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care
Legal Rights under the Mental Health Act
An informal patient is someone who is not detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act.
Patients who are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 are sometimes known as 'formal' patients. Formal patients have different rights.
Easy Read Guide to Mental Health Law
Welcome Packs - Admitted to a Trust Hospital (under review, October 2021)
Welcome Pack - City & Hackney
Welcome Pack - Newham
Welcome Pack - Tower Hamlets
See below for our Welcome Booklet for Inpatients with Learning Disabilities
Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) -Under review October 2021
MRSA Screening - Under review October 2021