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Our CNWL Adolescent Community Treatment Service (ACTS) celebrates their first birthday
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With schools returning very soon, we understand there may be some anxiety and fear for children who would be returning for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Alex Finnegan, CAMHS Nurse reflects on his nursing career to mark International Year of the Nurse
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Some of the most vulnerable children and young people in North West London, including those with autism and learning disabilities, will benefit from enhanced mental health care provided in partnership by West London NHS Trust, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and the Priory Group.
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Two young people has reflected on how animal therapy has helped them especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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From 1 August 2021, community services in Harrow will move to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)from London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) as part of an agreed transfer between North West London Integrated Care System partners.
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Mica Evans, ADHD Clinical Nurse Specialist, who also plays for Wasps Women rugby team, spoke to Nursing Times about her role within community child and adolescent mental health services
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Updated leaflets for Westminster CAMHS
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Westminster CAMHS Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disability Team Celebrate Learning Disability Week in “style”.
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The CAMHS Community Team now have access to specialist pharmacy support to increase patient and parent awareness of medications. The service is available to patients, parents or carers from the CAMHS team
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CNWL spent an evening at the Curzon Theatre, for the first screening of ‘There’s a place for you’, a series of films from our CAMHS service. The series, produced by And Productions, was created with our staff and a young person, showing the working and clinical experiences of child and adolescent mental health services.
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Over the last 12 months, the team at Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) have been working hard to streamline their assessment process and procedures; to reduce the time taken and improve both patient and clinician experiences.
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CNWL will be onboarding a new team of trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) in the Borough of Hillingdon, starting from October 2022. The EMHP role provides a new resource to support children and young people (CYP) in schools who are experiencing common mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression and behavioural difficulties, in an environment familiar to them.
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At 11 years old he was admitted to Collingham Child and Family Centre, one of CNWL’s psychiatric wards for children, to help him manage his feelings and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Harry stayed at the Collingham centre for 10 months, attending school on the ward and taking part in a variety of therapeutic activities, including family therapy sessions. In this video, Harry talks about his experience and what he learnt during this time.
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You may already know Tina, as the Service Director for our CAMHS and Eating Disorder Services. In this video, Tina shares her experience of working within CAMHS, and what drew her back to CNWL.
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CNWL Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in London and Milton Keynes met for a half day on 28 September to share QI learning from their projects. Find out more.
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Meet Sheik, CNWL’s CAMHS Out of Hours Specialist Mental Health Practitioner who shares his experience of working in the team.
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Dr Ritu Mitra, CNWL’s Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist shares her experience of working in the team, what she finds most rewarding about her job and why CAMHS is so important
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Vanessa is a Team Manager in Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS service, where she mostly works closely with young people who have autism.
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Children and young people in Harrow can now access a wide range of free mental health and emotional support programmes thanks to a new partnership.
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Meet Guy, a Business Support Officer within CNWL’s CAMHS Inpatient Services. As well as offering general service support, Guy spends most of his time running daily reports on clinical systems, making sure diagnoses are recorded correctly and monitoring staffing retention.
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In this video, Joshua talks about what drives him to work with young people, and the amazing team around him at Westminster CAMHS. Joshua’s story forms part of There’s a place for you, a series of films from our CAMHS service, showing the working and clinical experiences of child and adolescent mental health services.
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We’re setting up a forum just for young people – and we need your help. It’s going to be called the CAMHS Young Persons Board, a place where you can share your ideas directly with our Service Director, Tina Swain.
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This is Anita Henderson. Anita has worked as a mental health nurse since she was 22-years-old, and she’s been working for CAMHS for the past decade.
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Dr Ritu Mitra presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Digital Innovation in Psychiatry; diagnostics, therapeutics and solutions’ conference on 29 November
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We’re pleased to announce a new way to support children and young people to be discharged from hospital when they no longer need to be there.
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The group is a confidential and relaxed space for Parents and Carers of Children and Young People who are seen in CNWL’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), with presentation and information from specialists on topics you want to know more about.
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Jude Kearns, Clinical Lead for the CAMHS Urgent Care Team (Inner London) is set to compete in the London Marathon in April 2023.
