At the meeting on 10 January representative from NHS Emergency Duty Team / Crisis Care Practitioners agreed to provide a note on the proportion of young people presenting to the crisis teams in the different Health Boards who are waiting for a CAMHS assessment or are already under the care of CAMHS. The following information has been received.

 

Information from Cwm Taf University Health Board

From all of the cases referred to Cwm Taf CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team (between 1st April 2016 to 1st December 2017), only the following figures below were open within Secondary CAMHS and PCAMHS, the rest of our referrals were either unknown to CAMHS Services or at least not current/awaiting, to CAMHS services:

 

·         152 Children and Young People who are currently open and receiving an intervention with Secondary CAMHS, at time of referral to Cwm Taf CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team.

 

·         23 Children and Young People who were waiting to be seen by CAMHS for assessment, at time of referral to Cwm Taf CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team.

 

·         5 Children and Young People who are currently open and receiving an intervention with PCAMHS, at time of referral to Cwm Taf CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team.

 

·         5 Children and Young People who were waiting to be seen by PCAMHS, at time of referral to Cwm Taf CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information from Powys Teaching Health Board

From 16th September 2016 to 31st December 2017 there has been a 138 referral to the Powys Crisis Practitioners.

 

The following figures below are a breakdown of the referrals:

·         23 Children and Young people who are currently open and receiving an intervention from Powys CAMHS.

·         63 Children and Young people received an assessment from a Crisis Practitioner and then went onto receive additional services from Powys CAMHS.

·         52 Children and Young people received an assessment from a Crisis Practitioner but did not require any additional services and were discharged.

 

Below is a breakdown of the services that the 86 Children and Young people received:

·         Input from Consultant Psychiatry – 25

·         Input from Primary Mental Health Worker – 20

·         Input from CITT (Co-ordinated Intervention Treatment Team) – 8

·         Input from Specialist CAMHS – 33

 

All received an assessment from Crisis Practitioners within the 48 hr requirement.