Mental Illness and Complex Needs

Our aims are:

To support you in improving your mental health, achieving your ambitions, enjoying life and contributing to the community.  

We promise:

To focus on you as an individual, not as an illness
To empower you to achieve your potential
To work in partnership with you to help you stay well.

We ask you:

To respect our staff, our practice, our neighbours and our other patients.

What’s on offer:

Appointments from 9.30-12.30 and from 3-5pm with an evening clinic every Wednesday from 6.30 – 9pm. These can be booked for assessments and follow-up appointments. If you need an urgent appointment, we will try and see you on the same day. If you wish, we can also provide advice and support to your family and friend’s but everything you tell us is confidential.

If you have any concerns about your mental health, please book an appointment for a talk.

In general terms, the Mental Health Team aim to provide a swift response whenever possible to your expressed need and we are able to draw on a wide range of interventions and treatment options in order to achieve this goal. All treatment will be made available based on objective assessment of clinical need.

We have a variety of staff to help you including GP’s experienced in mental health, mental health nurses, a clinical support co-ordinator who can also help with the more practical problems (i.e. housing problems, benefits, finding ways to spend your time) and a counsellor. We also recognise that it is important to look after your physical needs and we work closely with Dr’s, nurses, midwifes, a district nurse and health visitors who can help with this.

When appropriate, we will refer on to other agencies including the Community, Mental Health Team, Crisis Team, in-patient services,