Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) we provide integrated mental health and community health services to the people of North London, as well as some services regionally and nationally.

We employ more than 3,300 staff, which makes them us of the largest employers in the area. Last year we helped care for more than 126,000 people. In 2020-21, their income was £338 million.

BEH provides services for young people, adults, and older people from over 20 sites. We support people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and well-being and help them get back into the community and to live as independently as they can. We follow an ‘enablement’ approach to providing care, which means BEH give people the skills they need to look after themselves with their support in the community. When they need a higher level of care, BEH provides that on their wards.

BEH provides a wide range of local and more specialist mental health services, including helping people with personality disorders, drug, and alcohol recovery, children’s mental health issues, dementia, eating disorders, learning disabilities, and suicide prevention.

We also run the North London Forensic Service (NLFS), which the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated as Outstanding. It treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. NLFS is also embedded in Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, and Brixton prisons in London, and Springhill and Grendon prisons in Buckinghamshire.