Short Term Assessment and Recovery Team (START)

START is the single point of entry for all mental health secondary care referrals for adults of working age 18-65 years in Haringey. The service provides a range of specialist mental health and social care assessment and time limited interventions.

The service aims to work with service users for no more than six months when the person will be either discharged back to primary care or to ongoing treatment and support through one of the Support and Recovery Teams (formally known as community mental health teams). The service is multi disciplinary: nurses, medical staff, social workers, Occupational Therapists, Dual Diagnosis workers and psychological therapies.

Who may refer: GPs, service users, families, health and social care related agencies, Police and housing

Referral method: Telephone, completed referral form, ‘walk-in’, faxed and emailed information

For further information, contact:

START (N& O Block)
St Ann’s Hospital
St Ann’s Road
Tottenham
London N15 3TH

Tel 020 8442 6399/6278

Opening hours: Core hours Monday to Friday 9-5pm, however there is emergency access 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Disabled access:Yes

Additional information: Single point of entry describes a method of referral management for all adult mental health services i.e. crisis teams, psychological therapies, assessments under the Mental Health Act, urgent and routine assessment. The emergency/out of hours aspect of the service is open to people over 65yrs who will be triaged to the appropriate service after assessment.

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