* Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses
* Providing a mental health consultation liaison and advice service
* Delivering a range of nursing and psycho-social interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate
* Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
* Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
* Representing mental health services within the general hospital
* Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care