Presentations 2008

This section of the HubCAPP website is hosting presentations from the Alcohol Liaison Seminar that took place at Ashfield Focus, Ashby De La Zouch in Leicestershire on Wednesday 11th June 2008.

The emphasis of the event was alcohol liaison work in hospitals and health care settings. Key note speakers gave presentations on their work - copies can be accessed below:

  1. Complications of alcohol withdrawal
    Presenter: David Henstock
    Alcohol and Drug Liaison: Senior Nurse
    King's Mill Hospital, Nottinghamshire
    Complications of Alcohol withdrawal.ppt (644KB)
     
  2. Nurse prescribing
    Presenter: Valerie Wood
    Drug and Alcohol Liaison Nurse Specialist
    Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    Nurse prescribing.ppt (101KB)
     
  3. Changing attitudes to Alcohol Health work
    Presenter: Dr Robin Touquet
    A&E, St Mary's, Paddington
    Changing attitudes.ppt (686KB)
     
  4. Alcohol access across Primary & Secondary Care
    Presenter: Debbie Morton
    Liverpool Primary Care Trust
    Alcohol across Primary and Secondary.ppt (6MB)
     
  5. Torbay Guided Self Help
    Presenter: Sarah Broom
    Torbay Alcohol Services
    Torbay Guided Self Help.ppt (250K)
     
  6. Alcohol Withdrawal management guidelines
    A Re-Audit of the Treatment of the Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome
    Presenters: Pamela Thom and Sue Gough
    Clinical Nurse Specialists - Drug and Alcohol Liaison Team
    Russell Hall Hospital
    Alcohol Withdrawal Management.ppt (131KB)

(Note: two presentations are unable to be published due to confidentiality).

Adrian Brown has also provided St Mary's In-patient Hospital Alcohol Guidelines:

The flyer for the Alcohol Liaison Seminar is available below :

Other information including factsheets can be found on the main Alcohol Concern website www.alcoholconcern.org.uk.

Alcohol Concern maintains a specialised collection of journals, e-journals, books and electronic literature on alcohol-related issues. The collection consists of:

  • an archive of Alcohol Concern publications
  • a core collection of publications on all alcohol-related issues from 1996 onwards
  • a bookshop of selected AC publications for purchase

The library database holds details of the collection and can be accessed online using the "Library search" function.