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Liaison and diversion service
Liaison and diversion services are based in the police stations in Doncaster, Barnsley and Shepcote Lane in Sheffield. They provide people with assistance in police cells, courts or in the community. Staff in our service can help vulnerable adults and young people from when they …
Mental health liaison service
The mental health liaison service provides mental health and psychiatric assessments to patients from accident and emergency and wards at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The service combines the responsibilities of each speciality ensuring each patient’s mental health needs are given the same priority as …
Early intervention team
The early intervention team is a specialist community service that provides high-quality care for individuals aged 14-35 experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The team works towards helping people to recover and provides a range of care strategies which focus on social inclusion and promoting independence. Individuals …
Macmillan community specialist palliative care
The Macmillan community specialist palliative care team support people with advanced progressive illness and their families. Referrals to the team can be made from the point of diagnosis to last hours/days of life. The specialist team includes: clinical nurse specialists palliative medicine consultants physiotherapist occupational …
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Mental health liaison team
The mental health liaison team provides diagnosis, support and information to people who are in a general hospital (in accident and emergency or as an inpatient) and experiencing problems with their mental health. The team is based at two sites – Calderdale Royal Hospital and …
Admiral nurses
Dementia UK, who founded and developed the Admiral Nursing model, works in partnership with South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG and NHS North Kirklees CCG to help to govern, monitor, and support the Admiral Nurse service. Admiral Nurses are registered …
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)- Barnsley
The IAPT programme is a large-scale national initiative that aims to significantly increase the availability of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended psychological treatments for depression and anxiety disorders. IAPT is planned and not offered in an acute crisis. It is not …
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Paediatric epilepsy nursing service
The paediatric epilepsy nursing service provides specialist support to children who have a diagnosis of epilepsy or who are suspected to have epilepsy, and their families, in the Barnsley area. We are a community based service and provide support in a variety of settings including …
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Community therapies team (South Kirklees)
The South Kirklees community therapies team provides assessment and treatment to people who do not have a diagnosis of psychotic illness but have or are likely to have mental health conditions where there is a significant degree of complexity and disability. Typically this includes people …
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Enhanced pathway 2 (South Kirklees)
The South Kirklees enhanced pathway 2 service is for working-age adults who have or are likely to have, a psychotic illness with a significant degree of complexity and disability. The team provide an assessment service, and when needed will put together a package of care …
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