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Primary care mental health (PCMH)

Some people benefit from a different approach with their mental health. If it’s not clear whether your current difficulties can be addressed directly through LMWS therapies or secondary care services, you may be directed to the Primary Care Mental Health (PCMH) team within LMWS.

PCMH staff will aim to build on your assessment, support you to understand your difficulties, and may offer:

  • a supported route towards our online classes, guided self-help or talking therapies
  • brief interventions
  • support to access the right service(s) for your current mental health needs.

Who are we?

We are experienced Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners operating as part of the Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service. We support people who’ve been referred by their GP for their emotional and mental health needs, who isn’t receiving mental health support from an existing service. We offer a service to patients who are aged 17 and over and registered with a Leeds GP. Our aim is to provide mental health advice and support within GP practices.

What do we do?

We support you and your GP team to work out what could help you and to make sure that you get the right help as quickly as possible. We may offer short term support to help you understand and manage your needs, improve your wellbeing, and help you to access other services.

What to expect

We will aim to contact you within 10 working days to offer you an appointment, to discuss your needs further. This initial contact will usually be by phone or in person at your local GP surgery or community venue. We can make adaptations to your contact, so if you have any additional access needs, please let us know.
If we cannot contact you, we may send you a letter. At your first appointment you will be offered a session to look at the issues affecting you, your goals, and create a personalised plan based on the options available. This may take up to 40 minutes, but a further appointment may be offered if this is not long enough.
From this appointment, we can discuss what resources are available to help you, which will be tailored to your individual needs. This may include advice and signposting to other services, or brief psychological interventions to help you manage your wellbeing.

Your information

Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service works in partnership. We will only share your information to support your direct healthcare and wellbeing, or where we are legally required to do so. We have implemented strong security measures to make sure that your records remain private and confidential. We would normally share information through your electronic health record back with your GP. We will ask you if we need to coordinate your care with any other agencies or professionals.

Read our privacy policy.