Adult Mental Health Services in Tunbridge Wells

Community Mental Health Services

Community mental health services treat people living in the community aged between 16 and 65 who are experiencing mental health problems.

The Access Team will be the point of access for all mental health referrals, undertake assessments, liaise closely with GPs and provide short term treatments.

The Recovery Team will care for those with longer term more complex needs who require ongoing support.

Your support package within the access or recovery team may include a personal budget to give you more choice and control over how some of your needs are met. For more information about personal budgets visit the Live it Well website.

Teams are made up of social workers; community psychiatric nurses; occupational therapists; technical instructors; Support Time and Recovery Workers; consultant psychiatrists; clinical psychologists and medical staff and administration and secretarial staff.

Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

The Crisis Resolution Home Treatement Team (CRHT) offer a service 24 hours a day 365 days a year. They provide services in response to crisis with community based assessment and treatment. They act as a Gatekeeper to inpatient care and offer an alternative to hosptial admission and facilitate early discharge.

South West Kent Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
Priority House
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9PH

Tel: 01622 725000
Fax: 01622 722104

Acute Inpatient Wards and PICU Facilities

Acute admission wards provide inpatient care with intensive support for patients in periods of acute psychiatric illness who can not be supported at home by the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams or Community Mental Health Team. Patients who are in an acutely disturbed phase of a serious mental health disorder, are detained in designed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) facilities.

Admission to acute inpatient wards is through our Crisis Teams.

Acute Inpatient Wards

Amherst Ward/Brocklehurst Ward
Priority House
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9PH

Tel: 01622 725000
Fax: 01622 725390

Amberward / Woodlands Ward
Little Brook Hospital
Greenacres
Bow Arrow Lane
Dartford
DA2 6PB

Tel: 01322 622222
Fax: 01322 622498
Direct Dial Woodlands Ward: 01322 622492

Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Willow Suite
Little Brook Hospital
Greenacres
Bow Arrow Lane
Dartford
DA2 6PB

Tel: 01322 622222 Ext: 3792

Psychological Services

Find out about Psychologial Services including Primary Care Counselling.

Rehabilitation Service

Find out about mental health Rehabilitation Services in Kent.