Forensic Outpatient Department – Patient Information Leaflet

We hope this leaflet will provide you with the information you need whilst attending the Forensic Outpatients Department. It includes information about the department and who is the service for as well as what will happen when you arrive at forensic outpatients.

Forensic Outpatient Department – Patient Information Leaflet

We hope this leaflet will provide you with the information you need whilst attending the Forensic Outpatients Department. It includes information about the department and who is the service for as well as what will happen when you arrive at forensic outpatients.

Fasting before Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) – Patient information leaflet

This leaflet provides information about not eating or drinking (fasting) before ECT treatment for adults. The information provided is based on the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland guidelines for fasting times alongside input from medical professionals working at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

Welcome Guide – Ferndene

This guide provides you with information that you will find useful during your stay at Ferndene, it tells you about the staff, the ward, the treatments and therapies available to you.

Fellside – Patient Information Leaflet

This leaflet provides information for people who are staying on Fellside ward. Fellside is an acute admission ward for men over the age of 18 years with mental health problems based at the Hadrian Clinic, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Forensic Learning Disabilities Community Transition Team

Leaflet about the Forensic Learning Disability Community Transitions Team (CTT). The team will help to develop a plan for when you leave hospital, The team will get to know you and support you while you are still in hospital.

Family Meetings – Information Leaflet

When a person needs the help of mental health services this will also have an impact on the lives of those who care about them. This may include a partner, relatives, close friends and important others. Family meetings offer a place where those who are concerned can talk together with a member of staff in a relaxed manner.

Falls information

Information leaflets about falls and how to reduce the risk of falling.

Adult Forensic Psychology Service – Information for referrers

The adult forensic psychology service delivers recovery-focused psychological services to service users who have had contact with the criminal justice system and have a history of mental health and/or personality difficulties, both within in-patient and community settings.

Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (North East and North Cumbria) – patient and referrer information

The Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (North East and North Cumbria) is a joint partnership between Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. The service delivers forensic consultation, assessment and in some instances specialist intervention and treatment across the area to young people up to the age of 18 years with both forensic mental health and complex non-forensic mental health need. This information aims to provide referrers with information about what they can expect from them and how to make a referral.

Family Therapy – an information leaflet

Family Therapists offer therapeutic support to individuals who are troubled by a mental health problem and to their relatives or others who are close to them (for instance, partners or close friends).