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24-hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service: NLFT

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The 24-hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS) offers a calm and therapeutic mental health setting to see the majority of emergency mental health presentations and represent an improvement on the service previously offered in busy emergency departments.

MHCAS offers full emergency mental health assessments and onward care planning in the department with a diverse and highly skilled mental health workforce incorporating support workers, peer coaches, nurses and doctors. MHCAS can support every aspect of emergency mental health care planning, from GP referrals to Mental Health Act Assessments.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

  • aged 18+
  • anyone that would otherwise go to an emergency department for mental health reasons
  • does not have an urgent medical need (for example an overdose of medication).

How to Refer

111

Healthcare professionals can contact NHS 111, select Mental Health option then select Healthcare Professional.

Crisis Single Point of Access will triage the referral and may accept for the Crisis Team or signpost.

If the person needs to be seen immediately and would otherwise go to A&E they will transfer the call to Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service.

Review date: Saturday, 23 January 2027