Working together better for mental health in children and young people during a pandemic: experiences from North Central London during the first wave of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Direct risk from infection from COVID-19 for children and young people (CYP) is low, but impact on services, education and mental health (so-called collateral damage) appears to have been more significant. In North Central London (NCL) during the first wave of the pandemic, in response to the needs and demands for adults with COVID-19, general paediatric wards in acute hospitals and some paediatric emergency departments were closed. Paediatric mental health services in NCL mental health services were reconfigured. Here we describe process and lessons learnt from a collaboration between physical and mental health services to provide care for CYP presenting in mental health crisis. Two new 'hubs' were created to coordinate crisis presentations in the region and to link community mental healt

SUBMITTER: Gorny M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8507403 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature