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Alcohol and Drug Liaison Nursing

Lead contact

Dave Henstock

Client Group

Hospitalised substance users specifically in King’s Mill Centre.

Services Offered

This service provides an outreach of alcohol and drug services, as provided by ‘The Maltings’, within the secondary healthcare setting: primarily at King’s Mill Centre.

The components of this service are: 

  • Providing specialist assessment, counselling, health education, and referral to hospitalised alcohol and drug misusers.
  • Guiding the clinical and environmental management of hospitalised alcohol and drug misusers.
  • Striving to ensure that alcohol and drug misusers are able to access essential hospital services.
  • Providing a communication bridge between the secondary care setting and community based alcohol and drug services.
  • Providing specialist alcohol and drug education to hospital based workers with the aim of achieving and maintaining an empowered workforce.