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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 …
Community mental health team (CMHT) (East) older peoples service
The Community Mental Health Team ( Older People East) is an integrated team consisting of staff from both the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Wakefield Council. The team provides community mental health care for people who have severe and enduring mental health …
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Community mental health team (CMHT) (West) older peoples service
The community mental health team for older people provide assessment, treatment and interventions tailored to the needs of the individuals visiting the service. We work closely with Wakefield Council and the team is a mixture of Trust and council employees who are all highly skilled …
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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 …
Intensive home based treatment team
The Kirklees intensive home based treatment team provides rapid and intensive interventions for people with acute mental health problems in the least restrictive environment as close to their home as clinically possible. Intensive home based treatment can be provided in a range of settings and …
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Integrated Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team (Barnsley)
The Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Kendray Hospital provides a borough-wide community rehabilitation service, which enables people who have had a stroke to access a service which specialises in stroke and rehabilitation. The Stroke Service consists of 3 main elements: 12 inpatient rehabilitation beds based at Kendray Hospital …
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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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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) service
The Service for adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a specialist service dedicated to supporting: Young people moving from children to adult services Adults previously diagnosed with ADHD requesting referral back to services Adults seeking a new diagnostic assessment The team’s main base …
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