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Yorkshire Centre for Psychological Medicine


The Yorkshire Centre for Psychological Medicine (YCPM) delivers biopsychosocial (holistic) care for people with complex medically unexplained symptoms and physical / psychological comorbidities. The YCPM is an eight bed specialist in-patient unit which was originally established on Ward 40 of Leeds General Infirmary in 1980. It is a unique service which has a history over many years of delivering services within Leeds and West Yorkshire, but which is now able to offer access to patients from across the north of England and beyond.

We aim to help people with complex difficulties make significant improvements with regard to their health and quality of life. Clinical outcomes are often very good, and patient feedback very positive. This is possible due to the nature of the YCPM Unit and its function within the general hospital setting, but also due to the depth of experience and breadth of expertise within the team.

The YCPM team specialises in helping people with the following types of problems:

  • Chronic, complex, or severe medically unexplained symptoms, including psychologically-based physical symptoms and syndromes.
  • Severe physical and psychological/psychiatric comorbidity:
    a) in people who are already general hospital in-patients but who have psychological needs at a level that cannot be effectively met on a general medical or surgical unit.
    b) in people in other services or the community who could benefit from focussed multidisciplinary treatment provided in an in-patient setting.
  • Patients with severe CFS/ME (we provide the in-patient component of the Leeds and West Yorkshire CFS/ME Service).


The YCPM is staffed by a multidisciplinary team, with the following elements:

  • Liaison psychiatry
  • Nursing
  • Occupational therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Social Work
  • Dietetics
  • Pharmacy
  • Administration


The unit benefits from staff with dual (general/physical in addition to mental health) training, and others trained in cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic approaches.

The Unit also has direct access to the following personnel:

  • Medical and surgical teams within the general hospital system, across the full range of specialities
  • Cognitive behavioural therapists
  • Psychosexual therapists
  • Outpatient chronic fatigue/ME team
  • Hospital mental health team


The YCPM provides a biopsychosocial (holistic) approach to assessing and treating the full range of patients’ problems. The expertise of the team has been developed over many years and the YCPM exists within the broader liaison psychiatry service provided by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Everything we do accords with NHS values and our stated Trust purpose of improving health and improving lives.

More information, including details of the treatments we provide and the YCPM environment, can be found in our Brochure (please click on the link below).

Downloads

Service Brochure

Annual Report 09/10

Annual Report 10/11