Urgent community response GP information

Inclusion criteria

• Is living in their own home or a residential or care home setting.
• Is in a crisis (as defined above) and needs intervention within two hours to stay safely at home or usual place of residence and avoid admission to hospital.
• Is living with dementia, best practice is to share responsibility for care with older people’s mental health teams.
• The patient should be registered with a Doncaster GP.

Exclusion criteria

• Is acutely unwell or injured, requiring emergency care intervention and admission into an acute hospital bed.
• Is experiencing a mental health crisis and requires referral or assessment by a specialist mental health team.
• Needs acute or complex diagnostics and clinical intervention for patient safety in hospital.
• Intoxication with drugs or alcohol.

Page last reviewed: January 15, 2025
Next review due: January 15, 2026