Services

Thames Ward is a medium secure, forensic acute admission ward in River House, at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Thames ward is where everyone is first admitted to at River House to determine what treatment and care they need within the unit.

As well as providing an in-house assessment and referral service, we provide inpatient care and treatment for men, aged 18-65, who have mental health problems and a history of offending behaviour, and who are acutely unwell or have challenging behaviour. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.

We provide nurse-led group therapies and a designated, named worker, who co-ordinates the care of each person. Our health and social care professionals work with people, their families and carers, to develop care plans to help prevent relapses, and to help identify early warning signs, so that they know how to get help in a crisis.

For an overview of our National Forensic Services - please visit: https:// https://slam.nhs.uk/service-detail/service/forensic-service-272/

River House...

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

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

Our service was set up to help young people in the care of the local authority in Lewisham who are struggling with mental health difficulties, as well as adopted young people living in Lewisham.

The Symbol Therapy Team is part of Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We offer assessment, therapeutic intervention and care for looked after and adopted children and young people, up to the age of 18, with moderate to severe emotional, behavioural and mental health problems.

This means that we see young people who are struggling with significant anxiety, depression, challenging behaviour and other mental health problems.

We are a Tier 3 CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service). This means that children and young people who have had severe and complex mental health problems for some time can be cared for by our team of mental health workers.

Symbol Therapy Team...

Address: 78 Lewisham Park Lewisham, London, SE13 6QJ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (local)

Our unit is in Lambeth Hospital. We offer services for men, aged 18-65, who have been detained on Sections 3 or 37 under the Mental Health Act 1983. We care for people with treatment resistant psychosis, with or without mild personality disorders; drug and alcohol misuse; and challenging behaviour. Psychosis involves distorted perceptions of reality, thinking, feeling, hearing and seeing often with symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

We provide care for people in our local community and from all over the UK

We provide assessment and rehabilitation in hospital. Our service brings together different health and social care professionals, including nurses, occupational therapists and psychiatrists.

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

Address: Orchard House
Lambeth Hospital
108 Landor Road, London, SW9 9NU

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

The Trauma and Dissociation Service (TDS) is a national specialist, outpatient assessment, consultation and treatment service for adults who are suffering psychological difficulties following trauma and/or dissociative disorders. We assess and treat survivors of a range of traumatic events (both adult and childhood) including domestic violence, childhood abuse, assault, torture, war, rape, major disasters and accidents.

We are the only NHS specialist service offering treatment for people presenting with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and severe dissociative disorders.

*This service is temporarily not accepting referrals for assessment and second opinions. We continue to offer outreach assessments, consultations/supervision/teaching and training care options

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

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (National)

The TREAT service is an outpatient service open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. We work alongside clinical teams, offering additional support with physical and mental health. We provide evidence based specialist treatments for patients with ongoing or difficult to treat symptoms, as well as clozapine titration.

We offer:

• Specialist assessment including detailed investigations
• Initiation and management of specialist and third-line treatments
• Physical assessment including blood tests and ECGs
• Investigation into other causes of non-response, such as comorbid substance misuse (including alcohol), the concurrent use of other prescribed medication or physical illness.
• Clozapine initiation to people with schizophrenia whose illness has not responded adequately to treatment despite the sequential use of adequate doses of at least 2 different antipsychotic drugs.
• Support to manage side-effects of medication

Please email TREAT@slam.nhs.uk to request a referral form.

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

The treatment service is a multi-professional community team that offers psychological and pharmacological therapy interventions, along side key working and dual diagnosis working, to people with complex non-psychotic presentations, primarily but not exclusively: recurrent affective disorders, anxiety, trauma, PTSD and OCD, and personality disorders.

The treatment service offers all of elements of the Assessment & Liaison service combined with targeted therapeutic interventions either provided within the team or by co-working with IPTT.

The service retains the ability to carry out Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act assessments, carers assessment and fulfill the safeguarding responsibilities as well as liaising with local authority personalisation services.

The service has clinical specialists providing therapy and key working and clinical supervision and training to case managers in the community. The service is able to key-work approximately 300 people.

Address: Ladywell House
330 Ladywell High Street, London, SE13 6JZ

Croydon Treatment Teams East & West provided care and support for people, aged 18-65, who have a range of mood and affective disorders and Personality Disorders. We care for and support people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

People eligible for our service must be on the Care Programme Approach (CPA). The CPA is a way of describing what you need in order to get the best care. It is for patients who need to see several people or organisations for their mental health care and treatment.

We can provide people with a care co-ordinator to plan their care and support them to access the best available help. They are usually a community psychiatric nurse, social worker or occupational therapist. This will be time bounded.

Our service provides access to a range of talking therapies. We work closely alongside Touchstone, Croydon's Personality Disorder Service.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Address: Jeanette Wallace House
No 1 Edridge Road, Croydon, CR0 1FE

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (Local)

Croydon Treatment Teams East & West provided care and support for people, aged 18-65, who have a range of mood and affective disorders and Personality Disorders. We care for and support people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

People eligible for our service must be on the Care Programme Approach (CPA). The CPA is a way of describing what you need in order to get the best care. It is for patients who need to see several people or organisations for their mental health care and treatment.

We can provide people with a care co-ordinator to plan their care and support them to access the best available help. They are usually a community psychiatric nurse, social worker or occupational therapist. This will be time bounded.

Our service provides access to a range of talking therapies. We work closely alongside Touchstone, Croydon's Personality Disorder Service.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Address: Jeanette Wallace House
No 1 Edridge Road, Croydon, CR0 1FE

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (Local)