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The National Deaf Adult Community Team works alongside local mental health teams. Clinicians provide specialist advice around assessment and treatment options for Deaf adults and specialist support and education around deaf culture and language to enable services to engage with their clients.
- Service Type: Specialist Services
- Service Contact: deafadultservices@swlstg.nhs.uk
- Service Category: Community
- Disabled access: yes
- Address: Elizabeth Newton Building 2, Entrance 1, Springfield University Hospital, Elizabeth Newton Way, London, SW17 0YG
- Reception hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm
- Reception phone number: 020 3513 4646
About our care
The service provides specialist support for patients, their families and local community mental health teams by ensuring that assessment and treatment options are approriate and meet individual cultural and lingusitic needs.
Who is this service for?
This service is for deaf adults aged 18+ who have mental health problems. The service also supports deaf/blind people and those with learning disabilities.
Referrals and access
We only accept referrals from community mental health teams or community learning disability teams, home treatment teams, early intervention teams and other secondary care services.
Other professionals (including GPs, social workers and carers) and prospective service users are encouraged to contact the service's helpine on for general advice on how to get help. The helpline is staffed by an experienced clinician from Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm, excluding bank holidays.
Helpline: 0203 513 4646
SMS: 079 7619 3229
Please note that the service cannot respond to urgent or crisis situations.
