Access to services - general principles

• Encourage residents to talk with their GP about mental health issues.
• The GP is most often the best person to facilitate a referral to Mental Health Services.
• iCope provides short-term talking therapy and is useful for common mental health and emotional difficulties.
• Residents can self-refer to iCope.
• The Camden Primary Care Mental Health (CPCMH) team are based in GP practices in the borough, and offer assessments and referrals on to specialist MH Services.
• The Camden Primary Care Mental Health team need the consent of the referred person in order to take on the referral for assessment, and would prefer a referral from the resident’s GP.

Added 9/4/20