Citywide roll-out from February 2025
This is an update from the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme Team shared on 4 October 2024.
Community mental health care and support in Leeds is changing, with all areas of the city now set to benefit from early next year.
A new model of community mental healthcare has been piloted in three areas of Leeds since March 2024, and original plans had been to extend this further in two distinct waves based on geography / Primary Care Network (PCN) areas.*
But following a period of learning and evaluation, this has now changed, and from February 2025, parts of the new model will roll out citywide.
This means that all areas of Leeds will start to be served by new community teams made up of people from a wide range of different health, social and voluntary sector organisations.
By bringing services together, people in Leeds living with mental and emotional health difficulties will experience more joined up community mental health services and support, providing them with easier access to the expertise and care they need.
Initial changes will focus on how members of these teams work together, how patients are triaged, and securing access to advice and guidance on psychological therapies. Over time, keyworkers will also be introduced so that everyone who is getting community mental health care from the team will have a dedicated, named contact to help them on their journey.
Together, these changes will help us to remove the barriers that may stop people in Leeds from getting the mental health care and support they need, so that they can continue to live as well as possible in the community.
Areas already providing care under the new model include:
- West Leeds (served by West Leeds Primary Care Network* (PCN)
- HATCH (served by Burmantofts, Harehills and Richmond Hill PCN and Chapeltown PCN)
- Leeds Student Medical Practice (LSMP) and The Light PCN
* What is a Primary Care Network (PCN)
To meet the needs of local populations, GP practices work together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their areas in groups of practices known as primary care networks (PCNs).
Find out more on the ‘Transforming Community Mental Health Services’ pages of the MindWell website.
