News & Updates
Improving the experience of New Starters trust-wide
12 April 2022
Written and contributed to by project team members: Lenna Adley (Project Lead), Katherine Brittin, Tanya Carter, Tina Collins, Alison Naughton, Dave Pearson, Kashif Ghafoor, Bernard Wooster, Martin Greig, Sheila O’Connell, Sonia Kaur, Isabella Larkin, Joseph Duncan & Angharad Ruttley. Staff starting at ELFT have sometimes felt that they aren’t receiving all they need to do… Read More
How PDSA testing helped the Early Years Speech and Language Therapy team decide to implement text message reminders
8 April 2022
By Cath Heaney, Improvement Advisor and Natalie Stowell, project leader and Graduate Management Scheme Trainee. In this 6-minute read, learn about how the Early Years Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Quality Improvement (QI) project team in the Specialist Children and Young People’s Service (SCYPS) collaborated effectively, and used Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles rigorously, to test their change… Read More
Improving the quality of carer contact on Jade Ward
6 April 2022
By Sean Stone, Life Skills Recovery Coordinator, Jade Ward, East London NHS Foundation Trust. In this 3-minute read, hear about the improvement work being done on Jade Ward, a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Luton to improve the quality of carer contact. Jade ward is a specialist unit that provides inpatient mental health care,… Read More
Stories from Improvement Leaders
4 April 2022
In April the eleventh wave of the ELFT Improvement Leaders’ Programme (ILP) concludes with a graduation event for over 100 ELFT staff & services users. During March we caught up with some of our improvement leaders to hear the story of their project so far. Find out more from Syeda, Kamel, Lawrence, Michael, Gabriel and… Read More