KAMCAS Referral Form
Referrals to KAMCAS can be made by professionals from secondary services (i.e. Mental Health Together, Mental Health Together +, Adult Social Care, All Age Eating Disorder Service, Early Intervention in Psychosis, or Liaison Psychiatry), or professionals from the Dynamic Support Approach (i.e. Dynamic Support Service, Dynamic Support Forum, or Care (Education) and Treatment Review process).
KAMCAS can offer:
KAMCAS provides specialist consultation and interventions for individuals who:
AND
When completing this referral form, you will be asked to:
Please ensure you can provide appropriate information against these points before you begin completion of this referral form.
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Please note, if KAMCAS is not the appropriate service for your client's needs, we will transfer this referral to the Adult Autism Keyworker Service (KCHFT) for assessment. KAMCAS shares information with other providers safely, following GDPR rules, and assumes consent for onward referrals has been given. You are therefore advised to discuss consent with the referred client directly – if they do not consent to transferring their referral/information, please download and complete the attached consent opt-out form, and return to KAMCAS via email/post.”
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We do not accept referrals for clients under the age of 17 years and 6 months and you will not be able to proceed further.
You will not be able to proceed with this referral since we do not accept referrals where there is no informed consent to refer or no evidence of a Best Interest decision to refer.
Please provide as much information as possible to aid the referral process
You will not be able to proceed with this referral since we do not accept referrals where there is a diagnosis of learning disability. Your local Mental Health of Learning Disability (MHLD) team would be a more appropriate service.
You will not be able to proceed with this referral since we do not accept referrals without a diagnosis of autism.
You will not be able to proceed with this referral since we do not accept referrals where there is no documented evidence of an autism diagnostic assessment having taken place.
You will not be able to make a referral for Urgent Response or Network Consultation, as we do not accept referrals for these unless the client is accepted on to the Dynamic Support Register/Database.
Please note, an urgent consultation from KAMCAS will only be available to clients who are already on the Dynamic Support Database.
If yes, we aim to contact the referrer within 5 working days, to clarify current risk concerns.
If there is immediate risk (i.e. within 48 hours) that may lead to serious injury or loss of life, please contact emergency services in addition to your KAMCAS referral.
KAMCAS works with clients who are:
or who are
2. Unable to retain their place in the community due to significant risk in the short term (12 weeks) of: hospitalisation, conviction, court disposal, suicide, and/or severe harm to self or others.
Please note we do NOT accept referrals which do not meet the eligibility threshold. If ‘Not sure’ is chosen, we will accept the referral and offer specialist consultation to support understanding and assessment of the client’s level of risk and its management by secondary services.
Please note, if the client is not registered with a GP in our catchment area, the referral may not be accepted.
Given the complexity of the autistic adult client group that our service is commissioned to work with, all referrals that meet our basic acceptance criteria from the questions above, will then need further discussion with the professional(s) involved. This is the first step in providing appropriate input to the care of the client through our autism specialist expertise.
If this referral is accepted as appropriate for further processing, we will need to speak to you in detail using a structured interview that we have designed to understand more about the client, their level of risk, their circumstances, and the reason for this referral at this time. This may lead to us offering further consultation to the professional network in the first instance before deciding whether we offer any direct specialist assessments and/or interventions.
You will receive an email with a link to our booking calendar. Please book an appropriate 1 hour time slot on the calendar within the next 2 weeks to have a Teams meeting with one of our triage team to complete this referral through the interview process described above.
We can meet with more than one professional via this Teams meeting if you feel that would be helpful in answering our questions. If this is the case, please ensure that you have consent from the client to involve other professionals in this referral.
We will shortly contact you to book an appointment between 9am and 5pm within the next 2 working days. This will be for a ‘fast-tracked’ 1 hour Teams meeting with one of our triage team to complete this referral through the interview process described above.
Please note, we can meet with more than one professional via this Teams meeting if you feel that would be helpful in answering our questions. If this is the case, please ensure that you have consent from the client to involve other professionals in this referral.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are unable to meet with us within the next 2 weeks , then we will decline referral until you or another practitioner with knowledge of the client is able to meet with us within 2 weeks to complete this part of the referral process. We cannot progress referrals of complex high risk clients further without this initial detailed discussion of the important clinical details that we do not have access to any other way.
