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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