Inpatient CAMHS
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At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, we provide specialist child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) inpatient care, from a single site at Parkview Clinic in Moseley, Birmingham. The service transferred from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust on 1 July 2026.
- Directorate: Children and Young People
- Age: 12- 18th birthday
- Referral Criteria: Accepts referrals from professionals
- Address: Parkview Clinic, Moseley, Birmingham,
Our care approach
Our services are delivered in line with NHS England national service specifications and follow safe, effective evidence-based practice to ensure a positive patient and family experience.
We take a single model approach to supporting patients. Therapies are delivered within an agreed timeframe, comprising of generic therapies that will benefit all patients, as well as more tailored individual and group therapies.
Support for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
We also have expertise in delivering services for children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), having become one of only two NHS inpatient services in the country to have received Autism Accreditation from the National Autistic Society. The award means that you can be confident we provide consistent, high-quality care for young people with ASD alongside significant mental health difficulties. Six out of every ten young people admitted to our service have underlying social communication difficulties/ASD, so it's important that we're able to support them effectively.
Other accreditation
Our service is regularly reviewed by QNIC (Quality Network for Inpatient CAMHS) to ensure we meet national standards for quality of care. We also believe that clinical outcomes, such as the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) score, provide a valuable indication of the quality of our treatment programmes.
Information for professionals
Making a referral to inpatient CAMHS
Children and young people will be accepted for admission when it appears that they may have a serious mental health problem that requires inpatient assessment and/or treatment and there is no appropriate less restrictive option available.
Our CAMHS Inpatient Service covers referrals from Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Routine and urgent referrals can be made to the West Midlands CAMHS Referral Co-ordination Hub using the NHS England Form 1 and emailing this to bwc.westmidsreferralcoordinationhub@nhs.net. You can contact the hub via phone on 0121 333 8840.
Referrals should be endorsed by a consultant psychiatrist. It is important to note that each referral is unique and the receiving clinical team will determine the urgency of the referral on receipt. In some cases discussions between referrer and the CAMHS Inpatient Service and the NHS England Case Manager will be required to enable consideration of clinical, geographical and appropriate use of available capacity. Where admission is indicated, a bed should be offered as soon as clinically appropriate.