Session 1 - Identification

• Mental health presentations in Primary Care: Depression, stress, perinatal mental health, anxiety (to include GAD, Social Anxiety, Health anxiety OCD) Self harm
• how they present/ what they look like
• How to triage and assess- what questions to ask, what things to be mindful of- i.e., risk, safeguarding, capacity 
• Differential diagnosis- personality disorders, mania, ADHD/ Autism
• Myth busters 
• Use of outcome measures- GAD7 PHQ9
• Patient experiences

Session 2 - Management and referral

• Management of mental health in primary Care – what can Primary Care staff do
• NICE guidance and explanation of the step care model
• Identify patients that can be managed/ treated in primary care and patients’ that need to be stepped up to secondary care/ specialist services 
• Referral options – 3rd sector, social prescribing, Primary Care (talking therapy, counselling) Secondary care mental health services
• Self-help- mindfulness, books on prescription, online resources 
• Prescribing- first line treatments
• 5 steps to well being
• Case studies and patient examples

Session 3 - Risk assessment and management

• Identification- self harm, suicide- - questions to ask, how to respond 
• What primary care staff can do to manage low level risk- patient self-management, helpline numbers, resources 
• When and how to act when risk escalates 
• Safety planning
• Referral to specialist services- crisis team
• Case studies