The Together Cafés provide a welcoming, safe and therapeutic space as alternative to other crisis service such as A&E. The service aims to equip people with the skills they need to reduce their immediate anxiety, formulate individual self-directed support plans and provide information / advice around the local services and resources that may help them moving forward.

At our most recent THT Board meeting on the 7th May, partners discussed numerous examples of how strong partnership working, innovation and commitment across the borough have contributed strongly to our local Covid-19 response.

Healthwatch Tower Hamlets talked face to face with 346 local residents in local street markets in the borough over four days in early May 2019. Key themes included prevention, personalisation, primary care and on improving neighbourhoods as healthier spaces. Download detailed results for each of the 4 localities.

When it comes to accessing medical care that’s urgent but not life-threatening, people in Tower Hamlets now only need to do one thing; call NHS 111 who will direct callers to the most appropriate service. This may now be an appointment at the newly launched Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), run by the Tower Hamlets GP Care Group in collaboration with Barts Health NHS Trust and East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). DOWNLOAD the official leaflet now.

Healthwatch Tower Hamlets talked face to face with 346 local residents in local street markets in the borough over four days in early May 2019. Key themes included prevention, personalisation, primary care and on improving neighbourhoods as healthier spaces. Download the results.

“We had great fun doing it and found it a very valuable experience for both visitors and store holders”

Working together to transform people’s health and lives in Tower Hamlets

Innovative staff at Lea Ward in Tower Hamlets have introduced sleeping packs to help service users get the best rest possible as part of their mental health recovery.

The Wheel of Partnership was developed in 2017 to identify the skills, knowledge and behaviours that enable successful integrated working and person centred care.

70 healthcare professionals including GPs, nurses, occupational therapists, researchers and colleagues from within and outside of east London came together on 31 January for a Shared Learning event to review the impact on the Buurtzorg Nursing Care Team (NCT) pilot in Tower Hamlets. The shared learning event was an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the pilot.

ELFT staff from all across London, Bedfordshire and Luton came together on 31 January at ELFT’s 'Think Family' Safeguarding Conference in Bethnal Green to share learning about Safeguarding both adults and children.

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