Making referrals – mental health services

Information for GPs and professionals about the referral routes into mental health services in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. 

We have made it easier to access the Trust’s adult mental health services by introducing a triage service for non-urgent or routine referrals and a Crisis Resolution and Home treatment (CRHT) service for urgent referrals for anyone in a crisis. You can find out how to make referrals to our Enfield Community Services. 

To make a referral to one of our specialist mental health services, please use the links below:

The Assessment Service

The Trust's Assessment Service will operate from 9am to 9pm, Monday to Friday and provide face-to-face patient assessments. Referrals to the Assessment Service can only be made by GPs or other health or social care professionals.  It is preferred if referrals to the Assessment Service are made by e-mail or fax wherever possible.

Borough

Address

Telephone

Email

Barnet

2nd Floor, Dennis Scott Unit, Edgware

020 8702 4382

beh-tr.barnetmhreferralsadmin@nhs.net 

Enfield

Crown Lane, Enfield

020 8702 3329

assessmentservice.enfield@nhs.net

Haringey

N and O Block, 
St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey

020 8702 5000
Option 3

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT) service

The new CRHT service will provide an urgent outreach service, assessing service users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, wherever they are at the point of referral e.g. GP surgery, A&E,their own home etc. It will mean that services will be provided closer to people’s homes rather than them having to come to one of the current Acute Assessment Centres in Haringey and Enfield. The Acute Assessment Centres will no longer be open. 

This replaces the interim urgent care service that has been running in all three boroughs. The contact details for the teams are: 

Borough

Address

Telephone

Fax

Barnet

1st floor, Dennis Scott Unit,
Edgware

020 8702 4040  

020 8702 4202

Enfield

Ivy House, Chase Farm Hospital

020 8702 3800

020 8702 5062

Haringey

Lea Unit, St. Ann’s Hospital

020 8702 6700

020 8442 5890

Patients can also self-refer to the CRHT by contacting them on the numbers above. If patient who is already known to the Trust needs urgent care they should be advised to contact their care co-ordinator in the first instance if it is between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. Outside of these hours they should contact the CRHT team.

Urgent and non-urgent referrals to our specialist adult mental health services, such as eating disorders and personality disorders, will remain unchanged. Referrals to CAMHS will also remain unchanged.

Non-urgent referrals into Haringey Mental Health Services

Three Core Teams provide mental health services in the borough

To refer adults in the age range of 18-65 year old:

These three Core Teams correspond with the following Haringey Primary Care Networks:

  • Central Core Team: East Central PCN, North Central PCN
  • West Core Team: North West PCN, South West PCN
  • East Core Team: North East PCN, N15 PCN, Welbourne PCN

For adults in the age range of 18-65 year old, please send referrals, police notifications and other Core Team correspondence to the above mentioned email addresses according to the appropriate GP Primary Care Network for the service user.

More detail on the changes to community mental health services can be found here.

Referrals for Older Adults over 65 year old need to be directed to the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, using following email address: beh-tr.victoriareceptioninbox@nhs.net Tel: 020 8702 6300

The process of making urgent referrals to the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) remains unchanged.

Service Directory

There are some services you can refer to directly using their referral forms. If you are looking for a particular service, you can find out more under services.