Mental Health Services in Slough
Slough CMHT
Vicky Naidoo – Clinical Lead Recovery
Team
Agenda
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Overview of mental health services
How can people access our services?
How can they find out more information?
Challenges
Overview
New Horizons
• Adult community mental health team (Pursers
Court, Slough, SL2 5BX).
• Secondary healthcare service
• Over 80 employees
• Multi-professionals (RMN, OT, SW, Medical,
Psychology, Psychotherapy, Specialist support
workers).
• Both LA and Health staff.
Teams
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Sector A and B – pathway teams
Early Intervention Psychosis
Approved Mental Health Practitioners
Psychological Therapies
Recovery Team and Hope College
Assist Team – challenging personality disorder
Slough Pathways Outreach Team
Medics – Psychiatry
Services
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Medical Support – outpatient appointments
Support with first episode psychosis
Mental health act assessments
Care co-ordination (social, environmental,
physical, psychological, emotional)
• Psychological therapies
• Hope College
Hope College
• Use an educational paradigm to complement
traditional treatment approaches.
• Recognising the importance of both
‘professional’ expertise and ‘lived experience’
• Shared decision making – not prescription.
• Reinforcing people’s strengths, not focusing on
what is wrong (Ashcraft & Anthony, 2005).
• Workshops, courses and groups to learn how to
manage own mental health.
Access
• GP referrals, professionals, family members, selfreferrals.
• Common Point Entry (CPE)
Office Hours
Common Point of Entry
0300 365 0300
Out of Hours
Emergency Duty Team 01344 786543
Crisis Response Team 01753 625900
Referral Process
• Offered telephone or face-to-face
appointment – triaged.
• Offered assessment with relevant professional
(Dr, Psychologist, MHP).
• Sent to local secondary service – processed in
referrals meeting – discuss appropriate
pathway.
Challenges in Slough
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Multi-ethnicity
Migrant town
Complex cases
Low socio-economic status - housing
Drug and alcohol – dual diagnosis
Employment
Discharge pathways – primary care
More information?
• Berkshire healthcare Foundation Trust website
(www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk)
• Slough Borough Council website
(www.slough.gov.uk)
• Managers guide to workplace stress:
(www.nhsemployers.org/HealthyWorkplaces)
• Mind (mental health charity) (www.mind.org.uk)
• Rethink website (www.rethink.org.uk)
• Talking Therapies
(www.talkingtherapies.berkshire.nhs.uk)