Type of service: Diagnostic services, Interventions and therapies

Trafford Extended Service (TES) is a specialist, multi-disciplinary, community-based team providing a range of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) compliant interventions and support including: an autism diagnosis service, with focused post-diagnostic and group support; consultation, supervision and training to individuals and services who need assistance to develop skills working with people with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism; diagnosis, pharmacological intervention and focused support for service users with adult ADHD, in particular for those clients in transition from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS); care coordination for a small number of Autism/ADHD service users with complex presentations whose needs cannot be met by other mainstream teams; consultant psychiatrist-led medication advice for primary care service users with complex common mental health issues.

Multi-disciplinary assessment: Yes.

Aimed at: Adult

Referral Sources: NHS Only

Specialisms: Exclusively autism specific

Approaches and tools used: ADI-R, ADOS