Facts about the Trust
Income
The Trust's 2010/11 income was £255m.
Facilities
The Trust's services operate from 67 community and inpatient sites. It manages over 713 general and specialist inpatient beds.
Our staff
We employ approximately 3700 permanent staff .
Our Services
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Geographic areas our services cover
The Trust provides a wide range of community and inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, older adults and forensic services to the City of London, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.
In addition, the Trust provides forensic services to the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, and some specialist mental health services to North London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Our specialist Personality Disorder Service serves North London, the specialist Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME services North London and the South of England.
The Trust's specialist Mother and Baby Psychiatric Unit receives referrals from London and the South East of England.
The population we serve
The East London population served by the Trust lives in the most culturally diverse and deprived areas in England and therefore poses significant challenges for the provision of mental and community health services. The Trust’s local services are delivered to a population of 710,000 in East London and the Trust’s forensic services are provided to a population of 1.5 million in North East London.
History
East London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly known as East London and The City University Mental Health NHS Trust) was formed in April 2000. It brought together mental health services from three community trusts in Tower Hamlets, Newham, The City and Hackney to become a large specialist mental health trust.
In April 2007, the Trust was awarded University status in recognition of its extensive research and education work. The Trust was granted Foundation Trust status on 1 November 2007.
In February 2011, the Trust integrated with community health services in Newham. We are now a trust which provides mental health and community health services.
Foundation Trust status - what it means
As a Foundation Trust, we remain firmly part of the National Health Service but are run locally and are not subject to directions from the Secretary of State for Health. We are still subject to NHS standards, performance ratings and systems of inspection and are accountable to Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts.
We have had great support from local people and are counting about 9290 members in 2011. This level of involvement means we can get real input about what people want from services, what we should do more or less of and what we should be doing differently.