Crisis Assessment & Treatment Team
The Hammersmith and Fulham Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team (CATT) is a multidisciplinary, community based mental health team that aims to provide a safe and effective home based assessment and treatment service.
The CATT team holds two key functions:
– Accepts direct referrals from the Single Point of Access (SPA) that have been assessed as requiring Emergency (4 hours), Urgent (24 hour) responses and Routine plus (up to 7 days).
– It provides an alternative to in-patient care/ hospital admission.
The service is available 24 hours per day; 365 days of the year for people with serious and/ or enduring mental illness who are experiencing a crisis of a nature or degree that would require admission in the absence of a crisis home based treatment team.
Location
Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit
Claybrook Road
London
W6 8NF
How to self-refer
Self-referrals can be made by those that have been under the care of the team before.
Phone
0800 328 4444 for the Single Point of Access.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) – Back on Track
Back on Track is a free and confidential psychological therapies service for anyone over the age of 18 living in Hammersmith and Fulham.
It offers psychological help to people with low level symptoms of anxiety or depressed, or those going through a stressful situation because of redundancy, illness or relationship difficulties. This is part of the improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme.
The service is run in partnership with West London Mental Health Trust, Mental Health Matters and the West London Centre for Counselling.
How to Self-Refer
Phone
0300 123 1156
Phone lines are open Monday to Friday, between 9am and 5pm.
Single Point of Access (SPA) – (West London Mental Health Trust)
The Single Point of Access (SPA) provides 24/7/365 access for WLMHT secondary care mental health. The service is for people experiencing a mental health crisis and delivers a 24/7 telephone support line for service users and carers. It is also the primary referral route for people requiring secondary care and includes a clinical advice service for GPs and other potential refers as well as a triage and sign-posting function.
All adult referrals are now made through the single point of access. The SPA will also signpost referrals for CAMHS referrals, Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Service and Primary Care Mental Health Services.
How to self-refer
For all urgent or emergency referrals, please call 0300 1234 244 so that your referral can be appropriately triaged.