Community Living Well
The NHS community mental health service for Kensington & Chelsea, Queen’s Park and Paddington.
Community Living Well brings together a range of health care professionals who have specialist skills in working with people who have mental health needs. This community mental health service aims to deliver excellent integrated, recovery focused and evidence-based health and social care.
Services
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Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT)
- Physical Activity
- Peer Support
- Employment Support
- Navigator Service
- Young Adult Navigators
Next steps
Once we have received the form, we will give the individual a call to talk about their needs; this usually happens within three working days of us receiving the form. Although we can offer most people an appointment within a week of receiving the form, this can vary depending on demand for the service.
Therapy might be provided over the phone, online or face to face at one of the following locations:
- St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Exmoor Street, London, W10 6DZ
- Gertrude Street, 15 Gertrude Street, London, SW10 0JN
- The Exchange Hub, Ernest Harris House, 61 Elgin Avenue, London, W9 2DB
Contact Us
Email: cnw-tr.clw@nhs.net
Telephone: 020 3317 4200
Inclusion Criteria
- 16 years or older
- Registered with a Kensington and Chelsea, Queens Park or Paddington GP
- Patients who live/work/study in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Queens Park or Paddington
- Patients with mild to moderate depression including recurrent depression where episodes are non-severe
- Patients with anxiety disorders including simple phobias, agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder, generalised anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Patients with health anxiety and somatisation disorder
- Patients with reactions to severe stress and/or acute stress reactions
- Patients with adjustment disorders following significant life changes exposure to stressful life events
- Patients with long term physical health conditions who have co-morbid mental health difficulties and there is evidence of significant interaction of physical and mental health difficulties
- Patients with medically unexplained symptoms where there is evidence that these may be related to emotional and/or interpersonal factors
- Patients presenting with insomnia or sleep related problems.
- Adults with mild to moderate ASD diagnosis where the presenting issue is mood related
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients currently under the care of a secondary care or tertiary service
- Patients who are at immediate significant risk to themselves or others requiring urgent action with a multidisciplinary approach
- All first episode psychosis – independent of age
- Patients with an established primary psychotic illness who have a relapse and are acutely unwell
- Patients with an established primary bipolar affective disorder who have a relapse and are acutely unwell e.g., acute mania or depression
- Patients with a new presentation of bipolar affective disorder
- Primary with an established diagnosis of personality disorder who require longer term specialist psychological intervention and there is no acute psychiatric need
- Patients who have complex needs (including personality disorder) who choose not to engage with appropriate secondary care services offered
- Patients presenting with mental health and social problems in multiple domains which are unlikely to respond to a brief recovery model.
- Patients requiring specialist mental health services e.g., severe eating disorders, complex trauma, significant forensic histories and repeat offending behaviour including sex offences
- Patients presenting with drug or alcohol misuse as the primary issue
- Patients with severe learning difficulties or severe autistic spectrum disorders
- Patients with social problems but no current mental health need
- Patients with a non-CNWL postcode who live outside the local catchment area and who require regular home visits
- Patients who are referred for anger management as the sole identified mental health need
- Patients with primary sexual dysfunction