What we do

Buckinghamshire’s Adult Mental Health Gateway provides expert mental health assessment, advice and guidance to Buckinghamshire Primary Care Networks (PCN) for adults aged 18years+ experiencing mental health problems.

Our aim is to ensure service users access the right care at the right time, ensuring the holistic needs of service users are met.

Non-urgent advice: Our team provides

  • Pharmacist and Psychiatrist medication advice to professionals in 3 working days
  • Support navigating and accessing additional services available within the voluntary sector and local community
  • Signposting to wider services
  • A simplified, single point of access for adult mental health referrals
  • Psychiatric screening of referrals to determine the urgency
  • Comprehensive telephone assessment to understand a person’s wider needs and where necessary, refer onto the relevant specialist mental health team for intervention

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