An audit was carried out of 18 months of referrals received by the Renfrewshire Adult Clinical Psychology Service from 1st August 2003 to 31st January 2005. The purpose of this was to ascertain the number of routine, soon, and urgent referrals received and to investigate GP referral patterns in relation to soon and urgent referrals. Also, the question of whether age of patient is attributable to urgency was examined. Tie majority of referrals received were from GPs and variation in referral patterns between GP practices and between individual GPs was found. Younger patients accounted for the largest percentage of all soon and urgent referrals, though older patients were more likely to be referred as a priority referral.