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Need help? Concerned about yours or someone else’s mental health? Then here is what to do:

If you are already in contact with our services
If you, or the person you are concerned about, are already being seen by our services and you feel you need emergency treatment, please contact us as soon as you can. It may be helpful to refer to your care plan, which should have details of who to contact in an emergency.

If you are not in contact with our services
If you, or the person you are concerned about, are experiencing mental health problems for the first time and need emergency treatment, you should contact your GP. Your GP is the doctor you would normally go to see if you are ill or concerned about any aspect of your health. They will be able to refer you to the most appropriate mental health service in your area. If you feel this is an emergency, you should be able to get an appointment quickly. GP practices also have out-of-hours numbers for times when the surgery is not open.

Contact our out-of-hours' service
The out-of-hours service is available for CPFT’s service users who are experiencing a crisis in their mental health and feel that they need to seek immediate advice. This service is also available for carers who are concerned about the mental health of the service user. The out-of-hours telephone number is:

0800 052 2252 and it is available at the following times:

Mondays to Fridays: 17:00 to 22:00
Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays: 08:00 to 22:00

After 10pm, an answer-phone message will give information on other contact numbers, such as: NHS Direct and ‘Lifeline’ Cambridgeshire & Peterborough. In case of an emergency, contact the local A&E or dial 999.

To search for a GP in your area, or to find the contact details for your practice, please see the doctors’ section on www.nhs.uk

If you are looking for support with an emotional issue, or need to speak to someone urgently, you may find one of the following websites helpful. We've divided them into five categories to make it easier for you to search. These are:

Adults

Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other.

Association for Post-Natal Illness
Provides support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness; increases public awareness of the illness; encourages research into its cause and nature.

British Stammering Association - Cambridge branch
We generally chat about our recent experiences and feelings but primarily we are there to support one another and where possible to pass on any knowledge or advise from our many years' experience.

Cam-mind
Cam-mind is Cambridge's oldest mental health charity, providing support to people with mental health problems.

Cambridge Careline
01354 655786 (office hours) - helpline for carers of people with schizophrenia and other enduring mental illnesses.

Cambridgeshire Adult Eating Disorder Service
The EDS works with individuals to produce tailor-made programmes of care.

Depression Alliance
UK's leading depression charity, with a network of self-help groups.

First Steps to Freedom
Aims to help, in a practical way, those who suffer from phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (excessive washing, checking, unwanted thoughts, etc), general anxiety, panic attacks and those who wish to come off tranquillisers, together with help for their carers.

Friends of Fulbourn
A group of people who support the care, welfare and recovery of sufferers from mental illness, whatever their age, who are or who have been associated with Fulbourn Hospital.

Hearing Voices Network
A user-led group offering information, support and understanding to people who hear voices, and to those who support them.

Hunts.Mind
Hunts.Mind is a service user led organisation which means its values and its approach always has the service user at the heart.

Institute of Psychiatry
One of the world’s biggest post-graduate centres for research and teaching in psychiatry, psychology, and allied disciplines, including basic and clinical neurosciences.

Lifecraft
Lifecraft is a Cambridge based self-help organisation run by users and ex-users of mental health services.

MDF - The Bipolar Organisation
User-led organisation for people whose lives are affected by bipolar disorder.

Mental Health and work
This web site is for anyone interested in the field of Mental Health and Work

Mentalhealthcare.org.uk
A new website giving straightforward information, advice and support to relatives and friends of people with psychosis – including people who have schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Mental Health Foundation
Founded in 1949, the Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.

Mental Health Research Network
Mental Health Research Network - helping to make research about mental health happen within the NHS in England.

Mental Health Shop
Run jointly between Rethink and Mental Health Media, offering free downloadable leaflets and publications on all aspects of mental health

Mind
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. It works to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress. Tel: 0845 766 0163.

NHS Choices
NHS Choices is a comprehensive information service that aims to put you in control of your healthcare. The service is intended to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services when you need them.

Peterborough and Fenland Mind
Peterborough and Fenland Mind endeavours to promote and encourage a greater understanding of mental health issues and works to support and represent all individuals, and their carers, who suffer from mental distress.

Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an independent information, support and involvement network for parents in Cambridgeshire.

Rethink
Rethink works together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life

Rethink National Advice Service factsheets
The Rethink National Advice Service provides information and advice to people with mental illness, their family, friends, informal and professional carers on a range of issues affecting people with mental illness and their carers.

Richmond Fellowship
Richmond Fellowship is a national organisation that provides support to people with a range of mental health problems throughout England.

Royal College of Psychiatrists
Improving the lives of people affected by mental illness.

Samaritans
Provides 24-hour, confidential emotional support to any person who is suicidal or despairing.

Sane
Offers information, crisis care and emotional support. Tel: 0845 767 8000.

Working Together for Recovery
Working Together was developed in Cambridge ten years ago as an informal network made up of a wide and growing range of people who care about mental health issues.

Your Life Your Choice
If you are new to using adult social care services, or are acting on behalf of a relative or a friend, you can get advice from Cambridgeshire's Your Life, Your Choice website. The website can help you choose the right social care and find services that are local to you.

Carers

Carers' Direct
Information, advice and support for carers.

Carers UK
Information and help for the UK's six million carers.

Crossroads (Cambridge City) Caring For Carers
The main aim of this charity is to give a break to the primary carer from the caring role. It also aims to promote and stimulate the cared for and improve the quality of life for those with disability of any kind.

Justvisiting
A useful tool for exchanging information amongst friends and relatives about visiting arrangements and a patient's progress.

Children and adolescents

CamStudentHealth
Website run by the Association of Student Practices in Cambridge

CAMEO
CAMEO - Cambridgeshire Early Intervention Services mental health care to people who have early symptoms of psychosis.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
The website of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMH) provided by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Childline
Free national helpline for children and young people in danger and distress.

Guide to Rough Times
This is a guide for young people in Cambridgeshire, their parents, carers, friends and family... how to look after your emotional well-being when times are difficult, and what to do when you may need some extra help.

Hands on Scotland
HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with or caring for children and young people. The website provides practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, and gives them advice on how to help them flourish.

Phoenix Centre
The Phoenix is a specialist centre in Cambridge for young people with eating disorders.

STARS Children's Bereavement Support Service
STARS provides support and counselling for any young person, aged 0–19 years, who has experienced the death of someone close to them. They also provide support for young people when someone close to them is dying.

Talk to Frank
Free confidential advice on drugs and alcohol.

The Child Bereavement Trust
A National Charity offering Support and Information for bereaved families and the professionals who care for them.

The Site
Provides factsheets and articles on all the key issues facing young people including: sex and relationships; drinking and drugs; work and study; housing, legal and finances; and health and wellbeing.

What Works 4U
Whatworks4u.org aims to improve treatment for young people with mental health problems by gathering information about what works in the real world.

Young Minds
Works to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people.

Young people's leaflets from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
A variety of leaflets for young people, families and carers about mental health conditions.

Your views: mental health
Developing the whole-system approach needed to integrate high-quality evidence-based services around the child and their family and across the whole care pathway.

Youthoria
Youthoria is the Connexions website for young people in Cambridgeshire where you'll find information and advice, entertainment and activities and a voice when you want to be heard.

Older people

Age UK
Information on a wide range of issues relevant to older people and those who care for them.

Alzheimer's Society
Information and support for people with the condition, their families and carers.

Talking Point
Talking Point is an online community, hosted by the Alzheimer's Society, where people with dementia and their carers can share their experiences and seek day-to-day advice.

Other useful websites

1-in-4 Forum
UK's biggest mental health online forum.

Addenbrooke's NHS Trust
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust website

Anglia Support Partnership
Provides support services to a number of NHS organisations in the east of England.

BBC mental health website
BBC website providing information, links and advice on mental health

Books on Prescription
A community health initiative so GPs and other health professionals can offer their patients information about recommended self-help books

Cambridge City Council
Cambridge City Council website

Cambridgeshire Local Safeguarding Children Board
The Cambridgeshire Local Safeguarding Children Board wants to make sure that children and young people feel safe and cared for in Cambridgeshire and hope that this website is useful to those who want to know more about the work of the LSCB

Cambridgeshire Community Services
Cambridgeshire Community Services is an arms-length body accountable to NHS Cambridgeshire. It provides a wide range of community-based health and social services to children and adults.

Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council website

Cambridgeshire County Council Community Risk Register
Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, each county has a duty to compile and assess the risks, threats and hazards that the community faces and publish these risks. The Cambridgeshire County Council hosts the register and publishes at the following link

Cambridgeshire County Council web portal
Web portal to partner organisations in Cambridgeshire County Council area.

Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Information
Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Information website

Cambridgeshire Local Involvement Network (LINk)
Cambridgeshire LINk is a new Government initiative made up of people, organisations and communities with an interest in health and social care. A LINk is established in England by every local authority responsible for social services

Cambridgeshire NHS Careers website
For jobs in local primary care trusts, acute trusts and mental health trusts.

Cambridgeshire Primary Care Mental Health website
A resource for people working in primary care and mental health workers, service users and carers, based on the four mental health handbooks produced by Lifecraft in Cambridge, The Bowthorpe Centre in Fenland, Hunts.Mind in Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough and Fenland Mind in Peterborough.

Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP)
CUHP is one of only five Academic Health Science Centres in England recognised by the Department of Health as internationally competitive centres of excellence in the integrated delivery of health care, health research and the education of health professionals. It is made up of CPFT, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Fenland District Council
Fenland District Council website

Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan
Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan For information on the development of mental health, acute and primary care services in Peterborough.

Guide Dogs UK
Providing mobility and freedom to blind and partially-sighted people. It also campaigns for the rights of people with visual impairment, educate the public about eye care and fund eye disease research.

Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust
Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust website

Huntingdonshire District Council
Huntingdonshire District Council website

Islam Peterborough
Living Islam in Peterborough

National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
Offers accessible information on National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) mental health guidelines.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill-health.

NHS Peterborough
NHS Peterborough guides primary care services (GPs, dentists, pharmacists and opticians), directly provides health and adult social services in the community such as district nursing and home care.

NHS Cambridgeshire
NHS Cambridgeshire is responsible for improving the health of its local community by assessing what your health needs are and providing or developing services that respond to those needs.

Peterborough City Council
Peterborough City Council is a unitary council providing all local government services to the people of Peterborough (England) and the surrounding villages.

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Website for the Peterborough Hospitals

Psych-Net UK
An independent private web site for mental health professionals and those interested in mental health practices.

Self-Directed Support
Self-Directed Support is a relatively simple way of putting you more in control of your social care support. It involves identifying and allocating a Personal Budget to meet your social care needs and providing help, if you need it, to plan how to use this.

Social Care Institute for Excellence
The Social Care Institute for Excellence website is your online source of good practice guidance, research and learning materials.

Time to Change
Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems.

Well-being East
More than 100,000 people across the East of England are set to feel the health benefits of a £3.9 million investment to improve well-being and encourage healthier lifestyles in schools, homes, workplaces and communities throughout the region.

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