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Community mental health team (CMHT) (Lower Valley)
Lower Valley community mental health team provides assessment, support and care for people with complex mental health needs. These include moderate to severe depression, moderate to severe anxiety, and mood disorders including bipolar disorder, psychotic illnesses and personality disorders. Psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, …
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Intensive home based treatment team (Wakefield)
The intensive home based treatment team provides assessment and treatment to people aged 18 to 65 who are experiencing the onset of, or relapse of severe mental distress. Their condition involves a breakdown in normal coping mechanisms or a change in personal circumstances which necessitates …
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Beechdale ward (Calderdale)
Beechdale ward is a mixed-gender inpatient ward for the assessment and treatment of any form of mental health condition for service users usually over the age of 65 years. The ward is located on The Dales Unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax. The ward has …
Elmdale ward (Calderdale)
Elmdale ward is a 24 bedded, single gender female ward for the assessment and treatment of working age adults predominantly from the South Kirklees and Calderdale areas, though regularly accepts admissions from the whole South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. The …
Ashdale ward (Calderdale)
Ashdale ward is a 24 bedded, single gender male ward for the assessment and treatment of working age adults predominantly from the South Kirklees and Calderdale areas, though regularly accepts admissions from the whole South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. The …
Walton ward psychiatric intensive care unit (Wakefield)
Walton ward is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) which provides intensive nursing care for both male and female patients. The 14 bedded unit supports service users, who are in an acute phase of mental illness and are usually detained under the Mental Health Act. …
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Single Point of Access (SPA)- Calderdale and Kirklees
The Calderdale and Kirklees Single Point of Access team (SPA) ensures that all urgent and routine referrals for Trust mental health services from GPs, and other statutory and third sector referrals are processed and responded to in a timely way, following a triage process. Read …
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Nostell ward (Wakefield)
Nostell ward is a 22 bedded, single gender female ward for the assessment and treatment of working age adults predominantly from the Wakefield area though regularly accepts admissions from the whole South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. The ward caters for …
Intensive home based treatment team (Barnsley)
The intensive home based treatment team provide a service to adults from the age of 18 and above who are experiencing an acute mental crisis where there are significant risks to themselves/and or others. The service aims to provide intensive community support and facilitate earlier …
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Older people’s mental health team
The older people’s mental health team provides a specialist community mental health service to people who are struggling with mental health difficulties in later life. The team has community mental health nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, support workers and medics. The team offers assessment of mental …
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