While the majority of our services are unaffected, some outpatient clinic appointments are being rescheduled due to planned industrial action by doctors between 15 and 19 June 2026.
All patients affected have been contacted directly with changes to their appointment dates.
If you have not been notified of any change to your appointment, please attend your appointment as planned. Please call the Trust’s contact centre on 0300 123 0808 if you have any questions or concerns.
The mental health crisis line remains available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, throughout the period of industrial action. If you are in mental health crisis, please call 111 and select the option for mental health to be connected to trained staff, who can provide timely and appropriate support and advice.
Thank you for your understanding.
About EPUT:
- EPUT has a vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care: Who we are – Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- EPUT provides services to more than 100,000 patients at any one time and our staff are focused on providing high quality care in often complex situations.
- The organisation has invested in inpatient facilities and community services to make them safer and more therapeutic. We have extensively invested in technology to keep patients safer, enhanced training, and are continuously working with our staff, patients, their families and carers to use learning and best practice to enhance our quality of care.
- While there is more to do, the Trust has made significant progress through innovation:
- Our 111 mental health crisis phone line ensures people in need can access support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- People with lived experience have been employed in designated roles across the Trust, ensuring patient voice is heart of the organisation and all that we do.
- A number of new initiatives have been launched, helping people access the support they need when they need it most. These include a mental health urgent care department, By Your Side maternal mental health service, Rough Sleeper team, mental health crisis ambulance cars, virtual wards and neuromodulation service.
- EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 and provides community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex, Luton and Bedfordshire and Suffolk. We employ more than 7,200 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- To read more about our priorities and commitments to deliver the highest quality and safest care possible, visit https://eput.nhs.uk/about-us/2023-2028-strategic-plan/