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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

 

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The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, accepts referrals for children under 18 years old to the locality base where the child lives.  The single point of contact approach through the Early Help Hub (EHH) has stopped, the CAMHS access team email address will cease to function. 


 

Referral Criteria

  • Concerns about possible severe mental illness for example psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
     
  • Serious Self harm
     
  • Depression or other mood disorder
     
  • Severe anxiety disorders including panic disorders, phobias which are causing significant impairment and post traumatic stress disorder.
     
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
     
  • Severe complex disabling family dysfunction
     
  • Psycho-somatic disorders
     
  • Pervasive and severe behavioural difficulties in pre-adolescent children and young people
     
  • Emotional and behavioural difficulties with pervasive development disorders such as Neuro-developmental delay.
     
  • Risk of harm to others
     
  • Children with profound and severe intellectual disability. 


 

Exclusions

Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders - Please follow the Children’s Eating Disorder guidelines.  Referrals are made to the Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service (CEDS)


For assessment of possible Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or ADHD - please send referrals to the Neurodevelopmental Pathway via the Early Health Hub using the form on the website.


If a child has Social and Communication difficulties under the age of 3 please refer to Community Paediatrics


 

Referral Information

Referrals should be sent to the appropriate team where the child’s GP surgery is located: 


Please see the following link for further information on which team covers individual GP surgeries.


Referrals can be made by parents, carers, young person or professionals involved with the young person.  Young people over the age of 13 can normally provide consent. 

 

Referrals cannot be made over the phone.

Each referral is screened on day of receipt. 

  1. Urgent Response Assessments are conducted within 24-hours (including Sat/Sun & Holidays at RCHT)
     
  2. High Priority Assessment within a working week

    and
     
  3. Routine Assessment within 28-days.
     

If a child/young person is already open to a locality CAMHS team, they can be contacted directly on:

 

East Admin Team

Covers Heathlands, Caradon and Launceston and the north east.

  • Email the CAMHS East Admin Team.
  • Launceston Family Hub, Coronation Park, Launceston, PL15 9DQ. Call 01566 765 660.
  • Heathlands, 6A Heathlands Business Park, Heathlands Road, Liskeard, PL14 4DH. Call 01579 373 850.

 

Mid Admin Team

Covers Shaw House, St Austell (Restormel) and Truro Health Park (Carrick).

  • Email the CAMHS Mid Admin Team.
  • Shaw House, Porthpean Road, St. Austell, PL26 6AD. Call 01726 873 292.
  • Truro Health Park, Infirmary Hill, Truro, TR1 2JA. Call 01872 246 980.

 

West Admin Team

Covers Bolitho House, Penzance (Penwith) and The Hive, Kernow Building, and Redruth (Kerrier).

  • Email the CAMHS West Admin Team.
  • Bolitho House, Laregan Hill, Penzance, TR18 4NY. Call 01736 571 070.
  • The Hive, Kernow Building, Wilson Way, Pool, Redruth, TR15 3QE. Call 01209 204 000.

 

Page Review Information

Review date                      08 August 2025

Next review date                08 August 2027

GP Speciality lead             Dr Melanie Schick

Contributors                       Lucy Hayes- CAMHS Community and CYPEDS