Mental Health
Accessing mental health services
Who to contact if you feel you need help for your mental health or are concerned about someone’s mental health, both adults and children.
Adult mental health services are provided by Devon Partnership NHS Trust (DPT) and in Plymouth by Livewell Southwest.
GP
If you are worried about your thoughts or how you are feeling, help is available. For help and advice, contact your GP. They will refer you for more specialist care if you need it.
I need help now
If you need urgent MH support or are concerned about someone’s mental health.
Adults – Devon and Torbay
Devon Partnership Trust – First Response Service is a 24/7 crisis line providing advice, support and signposting for people experience mental health difficulties.
If you feel worried about your mental health or that of a loved one or a friend, you can call the crisis line on NHS 111 (select the mental health option).
Children and adolescents
Please call the Single Point of Access Team on 0330 0245 321 between 8am and 5pm, Monday – Friday. Outside of these hours, call NHS 111 and select the mental health option.
For further information, visit:
- Children and Family Health Devon
- Children and Family Health Devon – Need urgent help?
- Devon Partnership Trust – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Adult out of hours crisis support
Mental Health Matters – age 18 and over.
Torbay and South Devon (also Exeter and Barnstable): Monday to Friday, 6pm to midnight, and weekends, midday to midnight.
For further information, visit: Mental Health Matters – The Moorings @ Devon.
Samaritans
Call the Samaritans on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org
Adults, young people and children – Plymouth
Livewell Southwest’s First Response Service is a 24/7 crisis line providing advice, support and signposting for people experience mental health difficulties.
If you feel worried about your mental health or that of a loved one or a friend, you can call the crisis line on NHS 111 (select the mental health option).
For further information, see Livewell Southwest page for: