East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust A journey to best practice in children and young people’s mental health teams Background East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS) is a specialist mental health service for children and young people run by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. It offers a number of different services such as specialist outpatient, intensive support, diabetes and primary mental health services. The main specialist outpatient service is provided by teams across three areas covering Burnley and Pendle, the Ribble Valley and Blackburn with Darwen. ELCAS initiated quality improvement and staff training initiatives when it joined the Children and Young People’s (CYP) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme in 2017. The service comm

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