Not sure if this service is right for you?
Contact our Fraser Health Access Line: Mental Health and Substance Use (Home of Access Central for Substance Use Services). We will help you connect with the service that best fits your needs.
- Call us at 1-833-866-6478 or
- Fill out our online form to request a call from our team. We will call you within 48 hours.
We are open 7 days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., 365 days a year.
The rapid access clinic provides quick access to an appointment with a psychiatrist and nurse from your community mental health and substance use centre. The psychiatrist will provide your family doctor or nurse practitioner with recommendations for your treatment, medications and/or your diagnoses.
Usually an appointment will be scheduled with a psychiatrist within two to five weeks from the time your referral is received.
You can expect to be contacted by the clinic nurse to discuss your referral and appointment with the psychiatrist.
Following your appointment with the clinic, your family doctor or nurse practitioner will receive a report from the psychiatrist describing diagnosis and recommendations for your treatment. Your family doctor or nurse practitioner will then continue to work with you on your treatment.
Access
Eligibility
Contact your family doctor or nurse practitioner so they can determine if this is the right service for you.
Referral
- Individuals who have mild to moderate mental health conditions (e.g. depression or anxiety)
- Aged 19 years or older
- No previous appointments with the rapid access clinic or other psychiatrist (e.g. hospital or community) in the past six months