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London Mental Health ­ Fact Bbook

A Cavendish Square Group publication 35 Main locations from which services are provided Limelight services and areas of specific expertise Specialist mental health services for children and adolescents (CAMHS), including family therapy and Talking Therapies services Dedicated mental health services for older people, from early diagnosis, memory services and ongoing treatment options Substance misuse services for drugs, alcohol and the new group of ‘club drugs’, provided in the community and through a medically managed inpatient detoxification service Specialist addiction services available nationally for people with gambling and compulsive behaviours Inpatient, outpatient and day patient eating disorders services, available to patients nationally Inpatient and outpatient learning disability services, available to patients nationally Mental health, addictions and primary health care services in many Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions in London, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and Buckinghamshire The Trust provides services from 55 wards and 250 community teams across North and Central London, Milton Keynes and 17 prisons in South East England. A list of all locations can be found at: http://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/find-hospital-ward-clinic-locations/ CNWL’s specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for children with disabilities and their families was recognised as unique and a model of best practice by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Inpatient Therapy Team at St Charles Mental Health Unit presented with the Team of the Year award at the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care and Low Secure Units Annual Conference. The Central London CBT Centre is recognised as a national and international centre of excellence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) CNWL was one of the first healthcare organisations in the world to develop and test home treatment services dedicated to older people. These multi-professional teams provide intensive, extended hours input to patients with functional illness or dementia who would otherwise need to be admitted to hospital for care. An evaluation of the first two years of the HTT scheme in Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster found that admissions fell by 40% and transfers to residential care fell from 10% to 3%. Home treatment teams are now being established in all CNWL-provided London boroughs. CNWL has developed innovative Memory Service models to maintain high quality services in the face of huge increases in demand. The Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Memory Service was the first in the country to be awarded 100% by the Memory Services National Accreditation Programme and in 2014 was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Mental Health Team of the Year. CNWL has been at the forefront of developing meaningful user/carer input with two thriving user/carer groups (East and West) and design of ground-breaking old age specific Patient Rated Experience Measures. At the end of 2014, we passed the Friends and Family Test with 93% of respondents.


London Mental Health ­ Fact Bbook
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