Information for referrers
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust deliver specialist Children and Adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) in North Cumbria. The specialist CAMHS service is a multidisciplinary team with bases in the East and West of the county. We offer an assessment and treatment service for young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. We work closely with other professionals working with children, young people and their families and can offer them advice, consultation and training on issues to do with child and adolescent mental health.
The following information aims to detail the criteria for referral to specialist CAMHS and in doing so to provide some guidance about other services that are available to children young people and their families who do not meet these.
- Anxiety Based Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Bi-Polar Affective Disorder
- Depression
- Eating Difficulties and Disorders
- Emerging Borderline Personality Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Psychosis
- Self Harm/Self Injury
- Suicidal Behaviour
- Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Where the conditions below have been identified there would also need to be a coexisting mental health problem for a referral to a specialist CAMHS to be appropriate. Where a referral does not meet this criteria, we provide some guidance about other services that are available to children young people and their families.
- Attachment Difficulties
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Bereavement
- Challenging Behaviour
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or ME)
- Emotional distress around parental separation and divorce
- Enuresis and faecal soiling
- Mild emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and Challenging Behaviour
- Safeguarding Concerns
- Sexually Harmful Behaviour (SHB)
- Substance Misuse
- School Refusal
- Somatoform Disorder
- Tic Disorders including Tourette’s Syndrome