South Westminster Crisis Resolution
and Home Treatment Team

• Daily treatment, care and support to service users and their families in their home
• Practical help, if needed, with things like shopping and household tasks
• Supervise medication that has been prescribed
• Develop a care plan which is individual to the service user
• The team will keep in touch with the service users GP and local community team.

Referral criteria:

• All residents of South Westminster whose mental health care falls under the Gordon Hospital, with serious and/or enduring mental illness, who are experiencing a mental health crisis and require admission to hospital;
• Clients who are currently well known and currently open to a local community mental health team who are showing evidence of relapse, and without intensive input are likely to require admission in the near future;
• Aged 18-–65, although people outside this range are accepted if they are already under the care of a local community mental health team and their admitting hospital is the Gordon;
• Any in-patient at the Gordon Hospital, with severe and enduring illness whose admission could be shortened by additional short-term intensive treatment and support at home.

Referral Sources:

• Community mental health teams (including Primary Care Liaison Nurses), the Assertive Outreach Team and the Out of Hours Team;
• In-patient units
• Other mental health professionals (Triage and Intake, Emergency Duty Social Work Team, Day Hospital);
• Out of area hospitals if admitting a local resident and if the Crisis Resolution assessment is feasible
• Mental Health Act Assessments to consult with Crisis Resolution Team prior to all assessments, althoug attendance may not always be appropriate.

• GP practices
• Self-referrals by clients / carers / family members etc
• Hostels, supported housing projects and other non-statutory services
• Police    

·PALS Link Worker:
Tom Colton  Tel: 020 8746 5507