North London Mental Health Partnership
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:
- Provide consistently high quality care closer to home
- With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, Quality Improvement and technology
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.
Our Partnership Board
he Boards of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust meet in common as a Partnership Board, reflecting the coming together of both Trusts in the formation of the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Our Partnership Board provides overall leadership and vision and is collectively accountable for all aspects of performance and management of the Partnership’s activities, including clinical and service quality, financial performance and governance.
Our Partnership Board is made up of a Chair, Senior Independent Director, Non-Executive Directors and Executive Directors, including the Chief Executive.
Our Executive Directors are the most senior managers in the Trust and they are responsible for working with the Non-Executive Directors to translate the Trust’s strategic vision into day-to-day operational practices.
The Partnership’s business is conducted through bi-monthly Partnership Board meetings. The meetings are held in public for the most part, but they are not public meetings.
As an NHS Foundation Trust, C&I also has an elected Council of Governors (public, staff, service user, and stakeholder) which holds the C&I Board to account.
Here is the Partnership governance structure including sub-committees, the majority of which meet as joint committees across both Boards.
The key constitutional documents of each trust are currently being updated to reflect our current Partnership arrangements and future intention to merge the trusts.