Support for for children and young people who remain a significant concern and risk despite extensive input.
Outpatient services
CAMHS Alliance/Crisis Team
This is a multi-disciplinary team designed to see children and young people up to their 18th birthday registered with GPs within Hammersmith and Fulham who are presenting with a serious mental health crisis and need intensive support and intervention to prevent admission or to help contain a discharge plan out of hospital. A package of support is provided alongside the local CAMHS offer. The team provides assessments in the paediatric A&E department at West Middlesex University Hospital for young people presenting in a mental health crisis to the acute trust and crisis follow up review offered in the community to young people presenting through this pathway. Includes the CAMHS Intensive Home Treatment Team.
Who can refer: Referrals from internal services or acute partners.
Inpatient services
Children and Young People's Mental Health Hospital Admission
For young people who have a mental illness, (for example, psychosis), or where children and young people are at high risk of seriously hurting themselves (risk of suicide) can be admitted to a mental health hospital bed if the assessment by a North West London CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist recommends this.
Once agreed, a bed search is made to find an appropriate hospital with space. The search first draws on the local North West London CYP Mental Health Inpatient Units which include:
- Lavender Walk Adolescent Mental Health Unit. Offers inpatient beds for people aged between 13 and 18. They care for young people who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties and mental illness.
- Priory Hospitals: North London. Provides child and adolescent inpatient services to the NHS for young people aged between 12 and 18 (under special circumstances, from the age of 10). Young people can be admitted on a formal (sectioned) or informal (voluntary) basis.
- Collingham Child and Family Centre. A service for children between age five and 13 with complex mental health problems, and their families. It provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with complex difficulties. It also offers intensive work with families/parents and carers to develop their parenting skills.