Harrow Home Treatment Team helps avoid admission to a mental health inpatient ward by providing intensive support to people in acute mental crisis in their homes.
The team is supported by the Trust’s Out of Hours Urgent Advice Line. All service users are provided with a crisis card with details of how to contact the appropriate service in an emergency.
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Eligibility criteria (who is the service for?)
The team provides support for people who:
Are over the age of 18.
Are a resident in Harrow or registered with a Harrow general practitioner (GP).
Are in an acute phase of serious mental illness, or are suspected to have an acute mental illness. This may include service users who have a dual diagnosis, such as a learning disability or substance misuse.
Are suffering a relapse of a long term mental illness.
Are vulnerable or at risk of harm to themselves or others, who cannot be safely supported in a community setting without an intensive level of support, care and treatment.
The team is unable to support people who:
Are under the age of 18.
Are not in an acute phase of a serious mental illness.
Could not be safely treated within a community or residential setting, due to risks posed by the environment or individual.
Have a primary diagnosis of alcohol or other substance misuse, or a learning disability, or a physical problem, without a mental health problem.
Have a primary organic diagnosis at any age, such as dementia.
Are in crisis that is social in nature, and where there is no current evidence of acute mental disorder.
Cannot be safely managed in the community, such as those at risk of offending.
How can someone be referred?
The team accepts referrals from other secondary mental health services, which include:
Community recovery teams
Early intervention teams
Assertive outreach teams
Psychiatric liaison services
Acute inpatient wards (to facilitate early discharge)
Any other secondary specialist teams
Other (out of area) hospitals where a CNWL service user has been assessed to need home treatment
The team is unable to accept referrals from:
GPs – who, in hours, should refer to the assessment and brief treatment team, community recovery team or A&E liaison services out of hours.
Hostels and other non-statutory services, such as supported houses or day centres, which should use the GP referral pathways as above.
Police – Section 136 presentations will be assessed as per local agreement.
Address:
Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ
Umbrella org:
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Telephone:
020 8869 2690/ Single Point of Access (all hours) 0800 0234 650
Who is it for:
Are over the age of 18. Are a resident in Harrow or registered with a Harrow general practitioner (GP). Are in an acute phase of serious mental illness, or are suspected to have an acute mental illness. This may include service users who have a dual diagnosis, such as a learning disability or substance misuse. Are suffering a relapse of a long term mental illness. Are vulnerable or at risk of harm to themselves or others, who cannot be safely supported in a community setting without an intensive level of support, care and treatment.
Train/tube:
Northwick Park - Metropolitan Line