An Adult Mental Health Care Team is a CARE PROFESSIONAL TEAM.

An Adult Mental Health Care Team is a team of professionals delivering specialist mental health SERVICES or Learning Disability SERVICES, including secondary and self-referral services, for adult and elderly PATIENTS. This includes the care or assessment of adult and elderly PATIENTS with Learning Disabilities but excludes child and adolescent psychiatry PATIENTS.

The Adult Mental Health Care Team can be multidisciplinary and may contain members who are employees of the Health Care Provider or be employees of other NHS or non-NHS ORGANISATIONS.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
formerly	Mental Health Care Team
plural	Adult Mental Health Care Teams