Services

The Lambeth Early Onset (LEO) Community Team is a service that supports people aged 18-65 who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.

We offer psychological, medical and social support to those experiencing psychosis for the first time.

We work together with people who use our service, as well as other organisations, to help them recover and work towards their goals.

Our service provides intensive community-based early intervention, care and support for people, aged 18-65, or aged over 65 if they have been treated by the Croydon Mental Health Service. R&R is for people with severe and long-term mental illness who live in the London Borough of Croydon in a 24 hour funded placement such as Supported Housing, Supported Living, Residential Care Home or Nursing Home.

Our team includes people from a range of health and social care professions. We help people to maintain their health and their move towards greater independence in their communities.

We treat a range of eating disorders alongside co-morbidities from first presentation to severe and intractable, including those patients who are diagnosed late in the development of the condition. We offer assessment, treatment and management of people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and mixed eating disorder symptoms (eating disorder not otherwise specified / other specified feeding or eating disorder) in an outpatient and day care service providing a range of evidence-based care packages tailored to the needs of patients and their carers. We are able to send self-help resources to individuals with binge eating disorder and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.

We identify the most appropriate treatment pathway for the patient and provide advice/treatment in the most appropriate setting. At all times the service will effectively and appropriately liaise with families or carers and other outside agencies. The service will provide psychological, emotional, social and physical interventions to the client group.

Our unit is internationally renowned for its research and is at the forefront of treatment development, having generated much of the evidence underpinning contemporary eating disorder treatments.

For more information on referrals, please email slm-tr.eatingdisorders@nhs.net

We offer assessment, treatment and management of people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or mixed eating disorder symptoms (eating disorder not otherwise specified), providing a range of evidence-based care packages tailored to the needs of patients and their carers.

Our service is internationally renowned for its research and at the forefront of treatment development, having generated much of the evidence underpinning contemporary eating disorder treatments. If you would like to know more about our research, or for clinical information, please visit: Eating Disorders Research Group

Our aim is to stabilise eating and impulsive behaviour, to provide therapy and support for people and their families, to provide rehabilitation and to help people maintain their health. Our treatment programme is offered alongside the use of self-help books and workbooks.

For more information on referrals, please email slm-tr.eatingdisorders@nhs.net

We offer assessment, treatment and management of people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or mixed eating disorder symptoms (eating disorder not otherwise specified), providing a range of evidence-based care packages tailored to the needs of patients and their carers.

Our unit is internationally renowned for its research and at the forefront of treatment development, having generated much of the evidence underpinning contemporary eating disorder treatments. If you would like to know more about our research, or for clinical information, please visit www.eatingresearch.com

Read our guide to help address your concerns about body image, eating disorders and mental health here

Eden Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is in Lambeth Hospital. We provide low secure, psychiatric hospital care for men, aged 18-65, who have severe and ongoing mental health problems. We care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Our team includes health and social care staff from a range of professions. We provide assessments, treatment and intensive nursing care.

A small number of people are brought to hospital under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. This is a power that police officers can use if someone is in a public place and the police have concerns about them. We have a separate, designated place of safety, a '136 Suite' (Place of Safety), where they can be admitted, assessed and cared for. The police also have powers under the Mental Capacity Act to take someone, either from a public place or their home, to a place of safety - normally this would be to an Emergency Department.

Effra Ward is a 16 bedded ward for male patients located in the River House Medium Secure Unit, based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Effra provides a service for male forensic patients aged 18 years and over, detained under the MHA (1983) amended 2007, and is a Tier 2 ward located in the River House Medium Secure Unit, based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Both Brook and Effra wards are classified as Tier 2 wards within River House and admit patients from the Tier 1 Admission wards, Norbury and Thames.

Effra Ward operates within the framework of recovery oriented practice, using My Shared Pathway (MSP). Brook encourages service user led involvement at all stages of their recovery and care pathway.

Effra ward takes patients from Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon and sometimes Lewisham. Their placements are funded by NHS England.

The expected length of stay in this ward will be approximately 6 to 18 months.

Eileen Skellern 1 (ES1) is a psychiatric intensive care ward (PICU) at the Maudsley Hospital. We offer care for women, aged 16-65, who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Our team includes health and social care staff from a range of professions. We provide secure psychiatric and intensive hospital care for people who have severe and ongoing mental illnesses whose behaviour makes them unsafe, either to themselves or others, and who cannot be treated in an open ward.

We provide assessment, treatment and intensive nursing care.

A small number of people are brought to hospital under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. This is a power that police officers can use if someone is in a public place and the police have concerns about them. We have a separate, designated place of safety, a '136 Suite', where they can be admitted, assessed and cared for. The police also have powers under the Mental Capacity Act to take someone, either from a public place or their home, to a place of safety - normally this would be to an Emergency Department.

**Due to Covid this service is temporarily closed**

Eileen Skellern 2 Ward (ES2) is a ward at the Maudsley Hospital. We provide inpatient care for men, aged 16-65, who have severe mental illness. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms. We aim to ensure that people with acute mental illness who need 24 hour hospital care are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need.

The Enhanced recovery Team assesses people, aged 18-65, who have severe, long-term mental illness and require support in a residential home or high support. We provide care for people living in the London Borough of Lewisham.

We work closely with housing providers, the patient and their carers to help people move into the most appropriate residential home for their needs.

We also do placement reviews of people who are funded by Lewisham and live out of borough.