East London NHS Foundation Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) brings together expertise in mental health, community health, and primary care, providing high-quality services across the City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire, and Luton. We are one of the UK’s largest specialist NHS providers, committed to delivering excellent care and supporting our communities.

Our work in suicide prevention
We provide a wide range of mental health, community health, primary care, wellbeing and inpatient services to young people, working age adults and older adults across the City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton.
Our ambition is to make a positive difference by providing people with mental and community health care services that support their recovery and help them to achieve the most fulfilling lives possible. Everything we do is driven by our values of care, respect and inclusivity.

Our current priorities
Our current priorities include developing our approach to suicide prevention in line with the new national suicide prevention strategy, including prevention and response to self-harm, and supporting those bereaved by suicide.

Our current challenges
Despite progress over recent years, the national suicide rate has not fallen since 2018. Nationally, rates of self-harm and suicide have been increasing in young people. The current difficult socioeconomic climate continues to have a significant impact on both society and clinical services.
