Services

The Affective Disorders Outpatient Service is a national, specialist outpatient service at Maudsley Hospital. We provide assessment, treatment and care for people aged over 18 who have complex or treatment-resistant mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder.
Maudsley Advanced Treatment Service (MATS) 

MATS provides assessment, treatment recommendations and follow-up appointments for patients from the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. The service offers specialist assessment and advanced treatment for people with complicated or treatment-resistant mood/affective disorders, including difficult to treat depression, treatment-resistant depression and treatment-resistant bipolar disorder.

MATS operates under clinical governance from the National Affective Disorder Service (NADS) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Address: Outpatients
Maudsley Hospital
Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

The National Autism Unit is a specialist inpatient service that provides assessment and treatment to men with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and:

• Comorbid mental illness associated with severe functional impairment
• Levels of risk or complexity that necessitate an inpatient environment
  
  Our multidisciplinary team has expertise in adapting evidence-based treatment to attend to the needs of individuals on the Autism spectrum.
  
  
  • Treatment interventions are based upon a comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment of need, including consideration of sensory and information processing factors associated with neurodiversity.
  • Our medical team is expert in psychopharmacological management of mental disorders co-morbid with ASD.
  • Psychological interventions are formulation-based and tailored to the needs of the individual. All patients have access to individual psychology delivered by Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Psychological Society (BPS) registered psychologists.
  • Amongst a range of evidence based psychological approaches, where clinically indicated, we provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for mental health difficulties commonly associated with ASD, as recommended by NICE.
  • We provide person-centred evidence-based treatments including a range of skill-building packages to develop life skills and promote independence.
  • We are responsive to the Transforming Care process, working collaboratively with Community Mental Health Services, Clinical Commissioners and families to identify less restrictive opportunities and develop discharge pathways and aftercare packages within the community.

Address: Witley House, 
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, BR3 3BX

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

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.

Address: Bethlem Royal Hospital
First Floor,  Fitzmay 2
Fitzmary House
Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, BR3 3BX

Category: Specialist Adult Mental Health Services (National)

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.

Address: Maudsley Hospital
Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

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.

Address: Lambeth Hospital,  108 Landor Rd,  London, , , SW9 9NU

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (Local)

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).

For an overview of our Neuropsychiatry Services - please visit: https:// https://slam.nhs.uk/service-detail/service/neuropsychiatry-services-274

Address: Denis Hill 1
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham, London, BR3 3BX

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

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).

Address: ,

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

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.
  

Address: 332 Brixton Road
Lambeth, London, SW9 7AA