PACT emails after assessment

(PACT is the personality and complex trauma service, who were suggested to me in January 2021 but I avoided because of autistic people often being misdiagnosed with personality disorder and the trauma that causes. CMHT were about to dump me, not that they were doing anything but discriminate anyway, so I didn't see any other option to try to survive.)

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16th August 2023

Dear Sarah-Jane,  

Thank you for your email. I am sorry for the length of time it has taken for us to have collaborative discussions with our CMHT colleagues and think carefully with all professionals in our teams about how we may be able to help.  

We have concluded together, that as you have continued to advocate for yourself, that an out of area treatment by a specialist autism service is most likely to be helpful for you. We have made a referral to the out of area treatment panel and will all be strongly advocating for a suitable provider to be identified. If you have any idea of a provider you would like to work with we would be glad to know and can help to make a case for this being funded for you.  

We are extremely grateful that you engaged with [the psychiatrist] and while I acknowledge that you feel this was not a good use of time, it has been helpful in helping us evidence that no local services are best equipped to meet your needs at the moment.  

I cannot make any promises for the outcome of the panel but can assure you that we will do all we can to help them understand why LPFT are not best placed right now, although we continue to hope that you could trust us, in LPFT to support you, in a mental health crisis or with any other mental health difficulties, but know that currently you need support with your autism.  

(Emphasis in bold is mine.)

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21st September 2023

Dear Sarah Jane,

We have met with the Out of Area Treatment panel and whilst they are still very happy to fund a specialist advocate for you, and we hope you can identify someone who you think is helpful and can get along with, they do continue to feel that your needs would be best met in LPFT.

(I'm not including the whole email. It's clear enough that the people who've actually met me and assessed me think I need autism support, which doesn't exist here, but Lincs ICB still disagree and say LPFT can meet my needs while LPFT say they can't meet my needs. I waited over two months from the PACT assessment for them to say I need autism help, and the ICB to refuse out of area autism help for the second time (they refused it in 2019, which is when this all started; it all could've been avoided if they'd got the right help from the right people at the right time).

 

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