What should a Camhs referral include?
The referral should include if relevant and appropriate the Sinlge Assessment, Care Plan, Child Protection Plan, Child Protection Conference minutes and past reports for Court.
What does a referral to Camhs mean?
For many children with mental health difficulties, a referral to CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – is the first step towards getting help.
Can CAMHS prescribe medication?
Child psychiatrists are the only CAMHS professionals who can prescribe medication if it is needed. Sometimes specially trained CAMHS nurses may prescribe for some illnesses (e.g. like ADHD).
How long is the CAMHS Waiting List 2021?
How long will we have to wait for a first appointment? Once the referral is received by CAMHS it will be coded as Urgent or Routine. Urgent appointments are seen within two weeks. If your referral is coded as routine, you will not wait for more than 9 weeks for a first appointment, often less.
What will CAMHS ask me?
We might ask you about home life, school, friends, and the kind of things you like doing, and any challenges or problems. It is often important for parents and carers to be included in this discussion, but there will also be time for you to talk alone with your CAMHS clinician, if you’d like to.
How long does it take to get a referral from Camhs?
Is Camhs a mental hospital?
Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs) Inpatient Services. Children and young people with mental health problems, their families and carers want timely access to evidence-based, high quality care, in the right setting.
Who are the referrals made to for CAMHS?
CAMHS is a specialist service, which means that referrals need to be made by someone who has met you and thinks that CAMHS might be able to help. That person might be your GP, health visitor, school health advisor, social worker or a paediatrician (a specialist children’s doctor).
Is there a tour of Peasley Cross Hospital?
Below you can view a 360 degree tour of Peasley Cross Hospital. Click and drag the screen to move around and use the icons to navigate through the tour. The dropper pins enable you to move to different areas of the building and the i icons enable you to view additional photos of the area. There is a free car park at Peasley Cross Hospital.
How to contact CAMHS child and Adolescent Mental Health Service?
For further information around CAMHS, please call the Specialist CAMHS Access Point on 0121 333 9193 or write to: In-line with national NHS guidance, there will be no changes to our current visiting restrictions from 19 July onwards.
Where is St Helens CAMHS community team based?
Our St Helens CAMHS Community Team is based at Birch Unit at Peasley Cross Hospital. Peasley Cross Hospital has free parking for staff and visitors. As with the rest of our buildings, Birch Unit is smokefree. This means that smoking is not permitted anywhere inside the building or in the site grounds.
