Make a referral

To make a referral into one of our services, please follow the steps below:

Make initial contact via telephone or email to the appropriate team listed below.
Following contact with our team, please download the relevant referral form below.
Complete the referral form and then email it with supporting documents to the team.

Please read our operational terms here.

PICU and acute referrals

If you need a PICU or acute placement at our Essex hospital for someone experiencing a mental health crisis, our referrals team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Call us on 0808 258 4261

Email us at sah.picuacute@nhs.net

Download our PICU and Acute Referral Form here

Inpatient referrals

Our Admissions Team is available Monday to Friday from 08:30-17:30.

Call us on 0808 258 4038
Email us at SAH.admissions@nhs.net

Download our Inpatient Referral Form here

This form will gather the required patient information so our clinical team can understand if they can best support the needs of the individual requiring specialist care.

Our central admissions team will support and manage your patient referral from start to finish. They will be able to answer any questions you have regarding the referral process with your local teams and will work with our clinical teams to progress your patient referral through to admission, keeping you updated at every stage of the process.