Services

The National Psychosis Service (NPS) is a clinical-academic tertiary service offering innovative individualised evidence-based multidisciplinary strategies to help those people with complex psychosis, including schizo-affective disorder, where standard treatment guidelines have proven ineffective or have not been tolerated. The service aims to enhance quality of life through tailored treatments and promotion of recovery thus reducing the need for high intensity placements and the risk of readmission.

Internationally renowned expertise in resistant psychosis is provided by a team of dedicated clinicians offering comprehensive medical reviews alongside innovative, bespoke treatment approaches. Themes include complex co-morbid physical health conditions which directly affect psychiatric treatment options; clozapine re-challenge after a significant adverse reaction; clozapine non-response.

Our specialist service is supported through established partnerships with the academic Departments of Psychosis Studies and Psychology based within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. We also liaise with clinical experts within other specialties across King’s College London and King’s Health Partners. The National Psychosis team is closely linked to the Maudsley Pharmacy and the other national specialist mental health services.

The service aims to enhance quality of life through collaborative working towards recovery. We regularly audit and publish our service outcomes and receive excellent feedback from our patients and their families. Benefits include reduction in psychosis, less frequent episodes of illness, improved social functioning, better understanding of the illness by the patient and carers and enhanced engagement with physical and mental health care plans. We have published evidence that admissions result in reduced morbidity, fewer days spent in hospital, lower antipsychotic doses, substantial reductions in the risk of readmission or high intensity placements and less expensive long-term costs.

As our patients may be a long way from home, we aim to make admissions as short as possible and communicate regularly with carers, the referring team and CCGs or CSUs to plan care and facilitate timely discharge.

**The National Psychosis Unit will no longer be overseen by the Croydon and BDP directorate as of July 3, 2023. The PMOA Directorate will oversee the clinical and operational management of the unit**

We provide a national, specialist outpatient assessment, treatment and rehabilitation service for people, aged over 18, who have complex psychosis, including schizo-affective disorder. A psychotic illness involves distorted perceptions of reality thinking, feeling, hearing and seeing often with symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.
National services are for people who live throughout the United Kingdom.

We treat people's physical and mental health. Our aim is to help people maintain their health and to reduce the risk of hospital readmission.

We encourage people, and their carers, to be actively involved in all decisions made about their treatment and care.

Due to Covid the out-patient service is accepting referrals and undertaking virtual assessments.

**The National Psychosis Unit will no longer be overseen by the Croydon and BDP directorate as of July 3, 2023. The PMOA Directorate will oversee the clinical and operational management of the unit**

We offer services for women, aged 18-65, with acute mental health problems. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms. We care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.

We provide inpatient psychiatric assessment, treatment and care to help reduce the risk of harm to self and others.

We bring together different professionals, including psychiatrists, nurses and social carers who work with the patient and their carers.

We help people to maintain their health and move on to live more independently in their communities.

Overview Our Neuropsychiatry Service manages the psychiatric complications of neurological and neurosurgical disorders, including epilepsy, Parkinson’s, memory disorders, brain tumours and functional neurological disorders (FND) among others.

Maintaining close links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, our experts offer specialist assessments and evidence-based, patient-centred treatment options in a wide array of settings: outpatient, day hospital, inpatient, general hospital (liaison).

This is a Living Well Network Alliance service. The centres will contain teams made up of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, social workers, voluntary and community workers. These people are experienced in dealing with a wide range of mental health conditions. Some of them will have experienced such conditions themselves.

Living Well Centres will offer:

• Short-term support for those with low to moderate needs from our combined team of clinicians, social workers and support workers
• Moderate to high support from our joined-up, focused support team for those with greater need.

OASIS is a health service for young people aged 14-35, who are experiencing psychological distress. These experiences might include:

• Struggling to cope at school, college or work
• Preferring to spend time alone, away from family and friends
• Feeling anxious, irritable or depressed
• Changes in sleeping and eating patterns
• Confused or muddled thinking
• Feeling that things and people seem strange or unreal
• Constantly thinking about particular ideas or beliefs
• Unusual experiences like seeing or hearing things that other people cant.

We provide care for people living in the London boroughs of Lewisham and Croydon. Our team includes Psychologists, Doctors and Key workers. We offer individual and family therapy, medical consultation, and practical support with issues such as housing and finances.

Our aim is to reduce the risk of difficult experiences becoming worse, and to improve peoples wellbeing. We hope to help people get their lives back on track and move forward in whatever ways they consider most important and meaningful.

OASIS is a health service for young people aged 14-35, who are experiencing psychological distress. These experiences might include:

• Struggling to cope at school, college or work
• Preferring to spend time alone, away from family and friends
• Feeling anxious, irritable or depressed
• Changes in sleeping and eating patterns
• Confused or muddled thinking
• Feeling that things and people seem strange or unreal
• Constantly thinking about particular ideas or beliefs
• Unusual experiences like seeing or hearing things that other people cant.

We provide care for people living in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark. Our team includes Psychologists, Doctors and Key workers. We offer individual and family therapy, medical consultation, and practical support with issues such as housing and finances.

Our aim is to reduce the risk of difficult experiences becoming worse, and to improve peoples wellbeing. We hope to help people get their lives back on track and move forward in whatever ways they consider most important and meaningful.

The Greenvale Specialist Care Unit is a facility in Streatham and is commissioned to provide treatment for older people with predominantly complex organic mental health problems.

The service provides 24-hour care for older adults (65 and older) presenting with a complex mental health conditions in a community-based setting.

This service is specifically for service users who could not be safely treated in the community due to the high risk of harm that they pose to themselves or others because of their continued behaviours but who do not require continued admission in an acute psychiatric ward.

We provide inpatient psychiatric assessment for people aged 65 and over or under the age of 65 with dementia, who are admitted to Croydon University Hospital.

Our team of mental health care professionals assess people and offer treatment advice. We ensure people get the expertise they need to address their mental health problems.

We are based in the Adamson Centre at St Thomas Hospital. We provide inpatient psychiatric assessment reviews and care co-ordination for people aged 65 and over who have been admitted to Guys and St Thomas Hospitals.

Our team of mental health care professionals, assess people and offer advice on treatment. We ensure people get the expertise they need to address their mental health problems.

We provide inpatient psychiatric assessment reviews and care co-ordination for people aged 65 and over who have been admitted to King's College Hospital.

We work closely with other hospital teams and offer mental health assessments and advice.

Our team of mental health care professionals assess people and offer advice on treatment. We ensure people get the expertise they need to address their mental health problems.

We are an outpatient programme for adults with bipolar disorder who have recently had several hospital admissions for an affective episode. The service is modelled on a Danish Mood Disorders clinic and aims to reduce the risk of recurrence and readmission to hospital.

The programme has two main phases. The core programme, designed to consolidate recovery, provides individually tailored psychoeducation, regular psychiatric review, occupational therapy, physical health assessment and a newly developed cognitive pathway and group psychoeducation provides a 10-session programme of learning, peer support and self-management strategies for bipolar disorder.

Where appropriate, carers are provided with support and new for Autumn 2021 is a family and friends psychoeducation group.

The Scutari Clinic is an outpatient service in the Adamson Centre at St Thomas' Hospital. We provide assessment, treatment and care for people, over the age of 18, who have mental health problems, including learning disabilities.

We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth (North).

Our team of health and social care professionals provide a range of clinics and therapies to support people's mental health and physical needs.

The Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS) is part of Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Our service is available to expectant parents and parents with babies or children (up until their fourth birthday) who live in the Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) areas of Tulse Hill, Stockwell, Coldharbour and Vassall.

Our team aims to help parents who may be feeling overwhelmed, feel a dip in confidence, and struggle with new responsibilities. We can help parents who may also have challenging feelings about themselves, their partner or even their baby or toddler at times.

For more information visit our website: PAIRS Lambeth