Senior Mental Health Nurse (adults)

Senior Primary Care Mental Health Nurse

Keira Garforth.

Keira works for Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the PCN.

Having a specialist mental health clinician available in primary care can offer more timely triage, assessment and treatment pathways for people experiencing difficulties with their mental health.

Keira can also provide brief interventions, clinical and prescribing advice and where appropriate signposting and onward referrals to statutory and non-statutory services.

Keira will see adults 18 and over and can help with:

Anxiety

Depression

Mood disorders

Psychotic disorders

Eating Disorders

Pre referral ADHD screening

Pre referral ASD screening

Perinatal mental health

Drug and alcohol use

If you are already engaged with a community mental health team you should continue to contact that team.

If you are in crisis you should contact the Single Point of Access on 0800 6444 101