All West Lothian mental health services are managed by the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), including the 3 inpatient wards. The services are to assess and treat people aged 18-64 who have mental health issues of at least moderate severity which impact on their ability to function and their quality of life. Those with milder mental health issues will benefit from self-management and there are extensive resources on the West Space website.
Services are stratified according to severity, matched to the level of need and illness:
Please also see the main Mental Health RefHelp page for:
Self-Management
Patients can use the extensive resources of NHS Inform and West Space. West Space is West Lothian HSCP’s site for mental health and wellbeing services and is maintained by Health in Mind. There are also resources available on the Stress and Emotional Difficulties page of RefHelp, and patients can access on-line wellbeing self-referrals.
GP services for Mild to Moderate:
Most will benefit from self-management resources. GPs can also refer to Community Wellbeing Hubs, sited at Bathgate and St John’s – please see here for further information (link to follow). Details of the Community Health Team (CMHT) service are below.
Specialist Services:
These are for people with moderate mental health problems not responding to GP management and those with severe mental illness requiring specialist support. Please refer via SCI Gateway to secondary care CMHT services.
The West Lothian CMHTs are based at Strathbrock (East) and Bathgate (West) with catchment areas corresponding to locality boundaries.
Indications for referral include:
- Patients with known or suspected psychotic illness requiring diagnosis/follow-up
- Patients with severe depression not responding to treatment
- Phobias
- OCD
- Severe Self harm
- Severe distress
- Severe personality disorder
- Adult ADHD and ASD
- Other patients with chronic mental health problems on complex medication regimes
Please also see details for emergency care.
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