The upcoming Alcohol Liaison Seminar for nurses and drugs or alcohol workers with an interest in alcohol liaison in hospital or healthcare settings, has a slightly revised programme, though will still be taking place on the 11th June in Leicestershire.
The updated programme and to book your place here
The previous event and audio presentations here
An Alcohol Liaison Seminar will take place on Wednesday 11th June 2008 in Leicestershire, following the success of forums in 2006 and 2007. The event is expected to be attended mainly by nurses and alcohol/drug workers in hospital or healthcare settings, although commissioners or service managers may wish to enquire about availability.
Further details on the event and how to book your place here
We reported on the previous event, with audio and presentations here.
A seminar entitled Alcohol Licensing: café culture or city centre chaos? takes place next month on the 7th May in Enfield to look at the debates around current licensing policy and its impact. The seminar will consider a range of research including the recently released report Implementation of the Licensing Act 2003: A National Survey which closely examines the findings of national research on the impacts of the licensing act. This follows the recent review of the 2003 licensing act.
The National Survey report broadly supports the review in finding that there has not been a consistent impact across the country, and there has been little significant change for better or for worse. However, the National Survey provides a detailed analysis of the challenges and responses facing local authorities and the policy and cultural context of the changes, as well as providing a range of recommendations.
More details
The North East Regional Alcohol Forum, an independant peer support charity, this week held an Alcohol Misuse Symposium in Newcastle. The event brought together key speakers including:
A number of workshops were also held to disucss the current issues facing these areas, so watch this space for a report on the event.
Community Partnerships to Reduce Alcohol-related Harm
Conference
sponsored by AERC (Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Wednesday April 16, University of Bath
‘…local partnerships are well placed to understand how alcohol affects their local communities (and) use the current and developing delivery frameworks to reduce alcohol-related harm …’ (Safe, Sensible, Social, p.66).
This one-day event will bring together key people with an active interest in Community Partnerships to Reduce Alcohol-related Harm, and address issues related to opportunities for and barriers to successful interventions.
Speakers will include:
This is an invitation only event. Please respond to Dr Willm Mistral W.Mistral@bath.ac.uk
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The Interventions and Substance Abuse Unit, National Offender Management Service, is holding a conference to launch outputs from the 7 alcohol projects funded under Probation Circular 31/2006 to support implementation of the alcohol strategy, Working with Alcohol Misusing Offenders.
The event is mainly aimed at probation managers and practitioners involved in managing or delivering interventions to alcohol misusing offenders but representatives from the alcohol treatment sector and other stakeholders are also welcome.
Details of this free event here.
The Alcohol Liaison Forum took place on Wednesday 28th March at the Soho Centre for Health and Care in Central London. The focus of the event was alcohol liaison work in hospitals and health care settings. It was attended by nurses, alcohol and/or drugs workers with an interest in alcohol liaison at hospitals or other settings, and other interested parties such as commissioners and service managers.
The first Substance Misuse Liaison Nurses Conference was held in Birmingham in October 2006. Attendees wanted to keep in touch to discuss the issues of such work, especially with increasing developments in alcohol liaison in hospitals. Download the programme here.
The speakers include leading experts and practitioners in alcohol liaison work and Wernicke's Encephalopathy.
1. Robin Touquet: Introduction slides (1-13)
2. Allan Thomson: Wernicke’s encephalopathy - clinical aspects from diagnosis to treatment and prevention slides 14-20
Video used in the presentation
Irene Guerrini: Alocal related thiamine deficiency: what can we do in the community? slides 21-35
3. Moya Forsythe, Rachel Cloudesley, Ruth Cooke, Paramabandhu Groves: Development of alcohol screening and liaison slides
4. Bob Patton: Alcohol problems in A&E: researching the interventions slides
5. Adrian Brown: Alcohol withdrawal management slides
The speakers (left to right): Moya Forsythe, Robin Touquet, Rachel Cloudesley, Bob Patton, Ruth Cooke, Allan Thomson, Adrian Brown, Irene Guerrini, Paramabandhu Groves
View all photos from the Forum here.
The Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling and Addiction Research Group of the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham is running a two hour workshop for those affected by someone else’s drinking or drug use. This workshop is an introduction of a web-based support for affected others. We will however be requesting your participation in the trial stages of this programme.
Date: 11th September, 2007-08-21
Venue: Learning Centre, (Room UG07), University of Birmingham
Time: 12-2pm or 6-8pm
If the following apply, then this workshop is for you:
If you are interested in participating, or wish to get further information do contact:
Akan Ibanga or Pat Evans
Alcohol, Addiction, Gambling,
& Addiction Research Group
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Phone: 0121 414 7195 or 0121 414 7213
e-mail: p.evans@bham.ac.uk or aji408@bham.ac.uk
More details here
alcoholpolicy.net and LDAN
alcohol strategy action planning workshops
workshop four: alcohol and domestic violence – working with women who experience both
Wednesday 15th August, 2 to 4.30pm, Central London
The workshop will explore the links between alcohol use and domestic violence, as well as policy and best practice in working with both issues – from the survivor's perspective. (Workshop five, on October 3rd will concentrate on perpetrators who have alcohol problems.)
Speakers include:
Topics include:
This workshop is the fourth in a series of six practical workshops to bring you up to speed with the latest stuff, and help you make progress on alcohol.
aim: to drive local action on alcohol through practical guidance target audience: local alcohol champions (we mean anyone who wants to get things moving on alcohol)
why attend: these workshops will change your (working) life. Action on alcohol has been bogged down in talking endlessly about all too familiar problems, and waiting for funding. There is important work we can be doing now, with existing resources. Come and get started.
about us: alcoholpolicy.net is behind the website and podcast for the alcohol harm reduction field. We are an informal network of consultants, researchers and practitioners, keen to share our learning and ideas. Our motto: nonus wheela reinventare. LDAN is the London Drug and Alcohol Network – developing substance misuse policy and supporting the capital’s treatment sector
other info: the workshops are free. Materials and audio from the workshops will also be freely available on www.alcoholpolicy.net to book contact Shona Flannigan at shona.flannigan@ldan.org.uk or 020 7704 0004
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