I am feeling particularly proud in writing my foreword for this edition as it highlights two of the Trust’s greatest strengths: quality improvement (QI) and co-production.

These are some of the key foundations upon which so positive work across our organisation has been built.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of QI within ELFT

How the NHS provides care has changed significantly over that time but the use of QI has remained a constant guiding light for us at ELFT.

It has helped us to develop a culture of continuous improvement that brings staff and service users together as equals. The stories shared by some of our QI coaches are fantastic to read.

Over the last 10 years, we have run more than 1,300 QI projects and more than 3,400 colleagues and service users have taken part in pocket QI training.

We have achieved a huge amount over the last decade and I am excited to see how QI can help us further, looking ahead to the next 10 years.

We also feature the new East London Discovery College, which will be supporting young people aged 13-18 with their emotional health and wellbeing.

Coproduction is at the heart of our discovery colleges and we are indebted to our young people for their leadership in developing and co-running these services with our staff.

Young people have helped shape the college in partnership with Mind and will also help deliver courses and workshops.

We know that the best care and support is shaped by health professionals working side-by-side with service users, our experts by experience.

Coproduction also includes carers of people we support.

The fabulous Joanna Moonesinghe shares her journey as a carer and how she and others are helping train clinicians through our Academy of Lived Experience (ALE).

I hope you enjoy reading the magazine and I hope our QI anniversary section will inspire you to sign up for QI training!

Lorraine Sunduza
Interim Chief Executive