Service details
MoRe clinic (Mood Disorder Research Clinic)
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The MoRe (Mood Research) clinic is a North London NHS Foundation Trust research focussed clinic, funded by the Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative Mission (MH-TRC).
The MoRe clinic provides an initial assessment outlining treatment advice and research opportunities for patients with mood disorders, such as difficult-to-treat depression and bipolar disorder.
We are a non-emergency service. If you need an urgent response, we would advise using the urgent help page which can guide you to appropriate service or links for immediate or urgent help.
- Borough(s): Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington
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Address:
Regis Road, Kentish Town, NW5 3EW
- Service hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
Who is this service for?
We accept referrals from individuals who are over 18 and who live in the Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden or Islington Boroughs. Patients must have a primary diagnosis of a current depressive episode of either unipolar or bipolar depression and who are willing to consider being enrolled in research studies. The current depressive episode must be difficult to treat i.e. there has been no response to 2 or more treatment trials in the current episode of illness.
How to access this service
You can be referred to our service by your GP or another mental health treatment provider. Please download MoRe referral form here and send to nlft.more@nhs.net.
Once a patient has been referred to the MoRe clinic, referrals will be reviewed and discussed by a multidisciplinary team. We may need more information to see if the clinic is appropriate. If this is the case, a member of the team will contact the patient to complete a screening assessment. If at the end of this assessment the patient meets the criteria for the clinic, the referral will be accepted and a time will be arranged to be assessed by one of the clinic doctors. If the referral is declined, the patient will be signposted to alternative sources of help as appropriate.What to expect
Once a referral is accepted, assessments will encompass a formal structured clinical interview, review of past treatments during current episodes, observer-rated questionnaires and self-rated questionnaires. Depending on capacity further assessments may be taken, such as computerized assessments and neuroimaging (electroencephalography).
Once the assessment has finished, the clinician will write up an assessment letter and provide to the GP. The assessment letter will outline key results from the assessment and will include; diagnosis, comparison of past treatment to guidelines, relevant self- and observer-rating results and advice for further treatments and signposting.
After this, the patient will be discharged from the clinic and ongoing care will only be provided through and in the context of a research study.
