WALTHAM FOREST: Health trust wins gold for sports challenge

8:10am Wednesday 11th July 2012

By Melanie Attlesey

A HEATH trust has become the first in London to be honoured for encouraging patients and staff to take up sport.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), which provides specialist mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services for people living in Redbridge won gold accreditation for the NHS 2012 Sport and Physical Activity Challenge.

Jimmy Garber, a matron at Brookside mental health unit in Goodmayes, led the application and received the award at an event in Whitehall on Tuesday.

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