Let’s talk mental health
Are you yourself or someone you know struggling with their mental health?
Do you know as a patient of Leadgate surgery you have access to an adult first contact metal health nurse?
First contact Adult mental health nurse can help with.
- Problems with mood/low mood/depression
- Reduced motivation
- Anxiety
- Worry/Panic
- Stress
- Tearfulness
- Feeling snappy/irritable
- Minor self-harming behaviour
Issues the first contact team are unable to deal with.
- Dementia
- Psychosis (hearing voices/visual hallucinations)
- Medication
- Patients in a mental health crisis
- Patients already open to Secondary Mental Health Services such as:
- Community Mental Health Team
- Access Team
- Early Interventions in Psychosis
- Older Persons Community Mental Health Team
- Peri-natal Team
- Eating Disorders Team
Please call our reception team on 01207 583555 to enquire the first contact mental health team have face to face and telephone appointments available in local surgeries throughout Derwentside.
