[TAG] Threshold Assessment Grid

Summary

The TAG score sheet is a 1 page, 7 tick standardised assessment of the severity of a patient’s mental health problems. It involves the GP and other referrers, or mental health professionals, rating the severity of the patient’s difficulties in three areas:

a) SAFETY assesses the level of concern about intentional self-harm (domain 1) and unintentional self-harm (domain 2)
b) RISK identifies the risk from others (domain 3) and to others (domain 4)
c) NEEDS AND DISABILITIES assesses survival (domain 5), psychological (domain 6) and social (domain 7) difficulties in the patient’s life

As well as the TAG score sheet, two further pages are available. An evidence-based checklist offers guidance on the issues to consider when assessing each domain, and further guidance provides more details on administration and use of the TAG.

However, these are optional - the TAG score sheet is the only page which needs to be completed for a TAG assessment.

These pages are designed to answer most questions about the TAG. If you have a question which is not covered, or would like to let us know how you are using the TAG, then contact the development team.

• Download TAG (PDF)
• TAG Publications 




• Complete your own TAG
• Referrer use
• Mental health service use
• Completion and scoring
• FAQs
• TAG developers