Introduction: Crisis Teams are well established in many trusts in the departments of psychiatry around the UK. The crisis team based at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston receives 1300 referrals per year approximately. Not only is it important to know what the sources of referrals to a crisis team are, but it is helpful to survey where the patients are discharged to at the time when a case is closed by the crisis team. This information will have implications in terms of service provision, as well as targeting potential sources of referrals in terms of psycho-education of not only service users, but also of referring agencies at different tiers of mental health services, from a general practitioner to a care provider in the community.
Objectives and Methods: To ascertain sources of referrals to a crisis team and the destination to which service users were discharged at the time of closure of a case by the crisis team.
Results and Conclusion: N = 92 records of service users were randomly selected. They all completed their journey through the crisis team from triage to discharge.