North East London NHS Foundation Trust

We rated North East London NHS Foundation Trust as requires improvement for the following reasons:

The child and adolescent mental health wards were a particular of concern, where we identified concerns in relation to a number of areas including stafing, restrictive practices, lack of incident reporting and lack of recovery orientated care planning. On this ward, and that of the acute wards for adults of working age and older people mental health wards risks were not always mitigated in relation to the needs of the patients. The environment of the acute wards for adults of working age and older people mental health wards were not safe as the trust had failed to ensure that the risks to patients from ligature anchor points were identified, assessed and appropriate works to address them scheduled. We served a Warning Notice on the trust in relation to these areas.