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  1. Adult Community Services
  2. Children's services
  3. Carers corner
  4. Community mental health services
  5. Community response to COVID-19
  6. Dementia and older people’s mental health
  7. Health for Homeless Service
  8. Medication
  9. Learning disability services
  10. Personalised care planning
  11. SilverCloud
  12. Spiritual and pastoral care
  13. Suicide Liaison Service
  14. Transforming wound care
  15. Tuberculosis Service
  16. Talking Therapies
  17. Useful information following a bereavement
  18. Video appointments
  19. Virtual wards
  20. Wheelchair Service
  21. Worried about someone's mental health?

CAMHS referrals

Anyone can make a referral to our child and adolescent mental health services.

We have 3 teams who manage your young person's referral. Each team works in a specific part of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The referral team is part of the wider multi-disciplinary team that will support your child or young person.

We want young people to access the right support, at the right time. 

We carefully consider each referral and will offer young people access to a service that best meets their needs. This may be a service from another provider. All the services we signpost to offer evidence-based treatments provided by trained professionals.

Contact the team

East Team

The team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

The East Team covers the following GP surgeries:

  • Bosvena Health
  • Bottreaux Surgery
  • Bradworthy Surgery (Devon)
  • Camelford Medical Centre
  • Launceston Medical Centre
  • Lostwithiel Medical Practice
  • Neetside Surgery (Cornwall)
  • Old Bridge Surgery
  • Oak Tree Surgery
  • Port Isaac Practice
  • Port View Surgery
  • Quay Lane Surgery
  • Rosedean House Surgery
  • Ruby Country Medical Centre (Cornwall)
  • Ruby Country Medical Group (Devon)
  • Saltash Health Centre
  • Tamar Valley Health
  • The Rame Group Practice
  • Wadebridge and Camel Estuary Practice

Mid Team

The team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

The Mid Team covers the following GP surgeries:

  • Brannel Surgery
  • Carnon Downs Surgery
  • Chacewater Health Centre
  • Clays Practice
  • Falmouth Health Centre
  • Fowey River Practice
  • Lander Medical Practice
  • Mevagissey Surgery
  • Middleway Surgery
  • Narrowcliff Surgery
  • Newquay Health Centre
  • Penryn Surgery
  • Perranporth Surgery
  • Petroc Group Practice
  • Probus Surgery
  • Roseland Surgeries
  • St Agnes Surgery
  • St Austell Healthcare
  • Three Spires Medical Practice
  • Trescobeas Surgery
  • Westover Surgery

West Team

The team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

The West Team covers the following GP surgeries:

  • Atlantic Medical Group
  • Bodriggy Health Centre
  • Carn to Coast Health Centres
  • Godolphin Health
  • Harris Memorial Surgery
  • Helston Medical Centre
  • Isles of Scilly Health Centre
  • Leatside Health Centre
  • Marazion Surgery
  • Morrab Surgery
  • Mullion and Constantine Group Practice
  • Rosmellyn Surgery
  • St Mary's Meneage Street Surgery
  • St Keverne Health Centre
  • Stennack Surgery
  • Sunnyside Surgery
  • Veor Surgery

Referrals

Referrals are triaged within specific time frames by our experienced clinicians. We use the CAMHS eligibility criteria and the i-Thrive model to establish where the young person's needs will be best met.

It is essential that the referral form includes as much detail as possible and that appropriate consent is obtained. Young people need to be registered with a GP in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to be eligible for support with their mental health.

Referrals are received from a variety of sources. Most often made by parents, carers, the young person themselves or professionals involved with the young person, providing that appropriate consent is provided. Young people over the age of 13 can normally consent for themselves.

Please note, we are unable to accept referrals over the phone.

If your request is for a neurodevelopmental assessment, these are processed by the Neurodevelopmental Access Team. Prior to any referral, we ask that a neurodiversity profiling tool is completed and implemented for a period of 12 weeks. More information about this is available below.

Suspected neurodiversity

To access the most personalised and timely support for a child or young person with suspected neurodiversity, someone who knows them well needs to complete the neurodiversity profiling tool with them and their family first.

The profiling tool can help to pinpoint specific areas of impact and identify ways to support them with neurodiverse needs and differences straight away. The actions identified from the profiling need to be completed, and strategies and reasonable adjustments trialled for a sustained period of over 12 weeks.

If you are still struggling with how to support a young person after this, we would invite you to speak to our multi-disciplinary consultation team to access support.

Due to a change in neurodevelopmental pathways in Cornwall in 2024, our service is supporting the old pathway assessment process for a specific cohort children and young people. This is to help move those children and young people through the previous pathway and is not an ongoing part of our service offer.

For more information, visit the Parent Carers Cornwall website. For support, email our Neurodiversity Team.

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