North Middlesex Hospital - CAPPLT
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Paediatric Liaison Team (CAPPLT) is part of the Acute Paediatric Service in the North Middlesex Hospital. It is a small multidisciplinary team consisting of Psychiatry, Child and adolescent psychotherapy and Clinical psychology. Our department works to improve attention to the mental health and psychological/ emotional wellbeing and care of ill babies, children and their families by providing a service to patients and support to staff caring for them.
We offer direct work to patients and their families who either present somatically, or who need help with the psychological sequelae and impact of illness. The allocation of the nature of the mental health support (CAPT, Clinical psychology or Psychiatry) is thought about and allocated carefully within the MDT, with each of the disciplines providing support across all of the medical specialisms.
We work with children and families on the wards (General paediatrics and SCBU) and as well as through a general outpatient service for children and families referred from paediatric clinics.