The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust provides young patientswith treatment that is unavailable from local child and adolescentmental health services (CAMHS) teams. The trust specialises in genderidentity, fostering and adoption. It also has a specialist adolescentservice and a learning disability service.
However, Children Now has learned that the clinic is being forced toturn away children it has the capacity to treat because primary caretrusts have clamped down on patient quotas, warning they will withdrawcontracts if they're exceeded.
A source said: "The whole of the Tavistock is having to turn awaychildren. The clinic is now in a position where it can't take referralsfrom several primary care trusts between January and April, when the newfinancial year starts, because they used up their quota beforeChristmas. But need is building up and the referrals are stillcoming.
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