Mental Health Service Trust

Service Description: Mental Health Trusts provide health and social care services for people with mental health problems. Mental Health services can be provided through your GP, other primary care services, or through more specialist care. This might include counselling and other psychological therapies, community and family support, or general health screening. For example, people suffering bereavement, depression, stress or anxiety can get help from primary care or informal community support. If they need more involved support they can be referred for specialist care.

More specialist care is provided by a Mental Health Trusts on the Isle of wight working in comjunction with the Isle of Wight Council social services departments.

Services range from psychological therapy, through to very specialist medical and training services for people with severe mental health problems. About two in every thousand people need specialist care for conditions such as severe anxiety problems or psychotic illness.

Also known as:- Assessments, Clinical Psychologists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Consultant Psychiatrists, Depression, Isle Of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, Mental Health Act, Mental Health Services, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatric Social Workers