Please ask for a referral from a care co-ordinator in a Community Mental Health Team.
Complex Needs Services in Bedfordshire is based at Disability Resource Centre in Dunstable (see the map below). However, the team is seeing patients in four other locations: Bedford, Biggleswade, Leighton Buzzard and Steppingley.
Addresses of the other locations:
Bedford PD Service
Day Resource Centre
Bedford Health Village, 3 Kimbolton Road
Bedfordshire MK40 2NT
Biggleswade PD Service
Complex Needs Service
The Lawns Complex, The Baulk
Bedfordshire, SG18 0PT
Leighton Buzzard PD Service
Crombie House
36 Hockliffe Street
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
LU7 1HJ
Steppingley PD Service
Meadow Lodge
Steppingley Hospital, Ampthill Road
Bedfordshire
MK45 1AB
Websites containing information about Personality Disorders and treatment:
Websites containing information about mindfulness:
Nice Guidance for Treatment and Management of Personality Disorders:
Peer Support:
Support for Carers Friends and Family
- The Complex Needs Service runs a monthly Carers, Friends and Family Support Group for those supporting someone with a Personality Disorder. The group aims to provide a confidential space to discuss issues people are facing and to enable people to obtain guidance and support on how to mange Personality Disorders effectively. The group also provides general information about Personality Disorder and treatment. If you are interested in joining, please contact the Complex Needs Service via email: elt-tr.complex.needsservice@nhs.net.
For current Complex Needs Service users:
- If you are already participating in the Complex Needs Service Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Program, and require additional assistance with the application of skills you are learning, telephone skills coaching is available to you from 9am - 4.30pm (Mon-Fri). When you contact the coaching service you will be encouraged to use the skills you have already learned to help you manage the situation more effectively.
The time to phone the coaching team is:
- When you need help to deal with a problem you cannot solve on your own.
- When you are trying to use DBT skills, but want some advice on how to do so more effectively.
- Before self-harming or other destructive behaviours.
Getting help in a crisis:
If you have identified that you need more support and advice than your usual support systems can offer, then consider contacting one of the following helplines:
CASS – Women’s Self-Injury Helpline:
Provide UK-wide emotion support, listening, and signposting for anyone who identifies as a woman and is affected by self-injury, as well as their friends, family and carers.They can be contacted on 0808 800 8088 (Mon-Fri 7pm-10pm & Thurs 3pm-6pm).
If you have identified the need for professional help, this can be sought from:
- GP
- NHS 111
- Emergency Social Work Service for out of hours social concerns 0300 300 8123
- Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) Duty Worker between 9:00 – 17:00 (Mon-Fri)
Crisis Team: Out of hours please contact:
- Bedfordshire - 01234 315691
- Luton - 01582 538631
Accident and Emergency Department