Mental Health Learning Disabilities

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Mental Health Learning Disabilities

• Pam Hall
• General Manager
• 3 October 2007

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Current Provision

• South West London and St Georges Mental Health
  NHS Trust currently provides specialist mental
  health services for people with learning
  disabilities for the boroughs of Sutton, Merton
  and Wandsworth. The service includes
• 10 inpatient beds (Jasmines Ward, Tolworth
  Hospital)
• Specialist Therapies (Jasmines Lodge, Tolworth
  Hospital )
• Assessment and Intervention Team (in Wandsworth
  only)
• Sutton and Merton Community Mental Health
  Learning Disability Team
• Specialist Psychotherapy service (operated from
  Springfield Hospital site)

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Aims of the Service

• The aims of the service are threefold
• To facilitate access to generic mental health
  services whenever possible.
• To provide community mental health teams for
  adults with learning disabilities across Merton,
  Sutton Wandsworth for those who cannot access
  mainstream services.
• To provide admission for assessment and/or
  treatment to specialist learning disability
  mental health beds for adults with learning
  disabilities who cannot appropriately or safely
  access generic adult mental health beds.

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The service

• Helps people with learning disabilities access
  generic mental health services through agreed
  protocols, multi-disciplinary consultation and
  liaison.
• Provides assessment, diagnosis and treatment of
  adults who have learning disabilities and complex
  mental health problems and/or severely
  challenging behaviour, who require a specialist
  mental health service.
• Uses the least restrictive option for treatment,
  delivered in a therapeutic framework that is
  safe, sound and supportive