Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust have been working in partnership since April 2022. Jointly known as The North London Mental Health Partnership, we are progressing to become one new NHS organisation by Autumn 2024.
Both rated Good by the CQC, we jointly employ 5,600 staff and care for nearly 200,000 people a year offering mental health support at home, in the community and in our hospitals.
Our services stretch from cradle to grave supporting people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and wellbeing and ensuring they live as independently as possible.
We offer cutting-edge and person-centred mental health and wellbeing support to our service users and communities. We are committed to working with them, their carers and their partners to improve the mental health of everyone in North London. This means supporting people to be resilient and have good mental health, as well as offering early intervention for those with mental health problems to prevent these problems worsening.
Together, our aim is to:
Our Partnership is already making a difference with a new model of community services across our five boroughs. This entails multi-disciplinary teams, including clinicians, social workers and the voluntary sector, working together in locations close to where people live.
Our services are wide-ranging and include help for people with personality disorders, specialist perinatal support for pregnant women, help for people with eating disorders, targeted support for veterans, drug and alcohol recovery treatment, support for those with dementia or learning disabilities and suicide prevention. We also work with people who are accused of stalking, we have specialist services that work in prisons and there are services that care for people who are detained by the police under the Mental Health Act.
We offer a range of more specialist mental health services. Here are just a few examples with full information about all our services on the website.
A single Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service division across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey
The North London Forensic Service which the CQC has rated as Outstanding. treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We are also the lead provider for a group of five London trusts delivering secure forensic inpatient services in north London.
Our Gangs and Violence programme provides intensive support to 18-24 year olds who are at greatest risk of involvement in serious youth violence.
Our Eating Disorder Service is a national specialist centre based at St Ann’s Hospital in the London Borough of Haringey providing care and treatment to people aged 18 years and above with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating .
We belong to University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships with over 40% of our consultants in Camden and Islington holding joint academic posts alongside their clinical ones.
We are constantly working to make sure all our buildings offer a safe, warm and comfortable environment for our service users and our staff.
Our state-of-the-art, award-winning inpatient unit at St Ann’s in Haringey was made possible by the sale of some of the land on which it stands to the Greater London Authority.
Our Transformation Programme has delivered Highgate East, a state-of-the-art inpatient facility and Lowther Road, a purpose-built Integrated Community Mental Health Centre. Both opened in spring 2024.
You can read more in our Partnership Strategy [pdf] about how our Partnership is transforming the care we provide.
Further information is available on request to nlft.Trust.Secretary@nhs.net