Urgent mental health care depends on community capacity

Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor, Mason and colleagues note that crisis presentations to emergency departments have become a default route to care, partly because of poor access to community services, and that plans to evaluate the new mental health emergency departments are limited.[1] Our experience in a general adult community mental health team (CMHT) in North London supports both points. The Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults introduced a "no wrong door" approach to accessing care.[2] In our experience, this has led to a significant increase in the number…