Please read the statements below carefully and tick to confirm that you have understood.

Crisis (emergency) support
If you feel like you cannot keep yourself safe and you are in immediate danger of a suicide attempt or harming someone else:

* Go to the nearest Accident and Emergency (A&E department). UCLH has the nearest A&E department to UCL’s main campus - this A&E department has a dedicated mental health unit.

* Call 999 to request an ambulance if you cannot go to the hospital yourself.

* International Crisis Contact Information:
Choose your country and contact the appropriate service.

Confidentiality and Data Protection
We use your personal data to ensure you are eligible to use the Service, to undertake and arrange the most appropriate support for you and to contact you.

As a client of SPCS the personal data you provide will be kept strictly confidential within the Service, and not revealed to any third parties, except in exceptional circumstances, such as where you disclose imminent danger to yourself or others, if there is risk of serious harm to an individual, or where necessary for the detection/prevention of serious crime . Wherever possible and if considered appropriate, this will be discussed with you first.

The Service retains counselling records according to the criteria specified by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and records that hold psychiatric data are held according to the criteria specified by the British Medical Association.

The Service stores all information about each student on a secure and confidential database, which is also kept separate to any other student record system.

Statistical data is collected throughout your therapeutic intervention, and may be used for annual reports, Freedom of Information requests and research purposes. All data provided is anonymised and will not contain data that would make you identifiable in any way, ensuring confidentiality is maintained.

SPCS’s Privacy Notice provides further information on how we handle your personal data, which includes (but is not limited to) your rights as a data subject and sharing data with third parties.

If you have any questions about how we use your data, or around any aspect of confidentiality, please contact us.

Read UCL's Student Privacy Notice

Before you register
It’s important that you understand our service before you register and that you know what will happen next.
Some other UCL services may provide support more suited to particular student groups, such as PhD students or those affected by sexual violence.
Read important pre-registration information.
Read important information about what happens after you register.

Please Acknowledge *

I confirm that I have read and understood the important pre-registration information and important information about what happens after you register.

I understand that my counselling records will be retained in accordance with the criteria specified by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and records that hold psychiatric data are held according to the criteria specified by the British Medical Association.