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| Title: |
How Best Can We Deliver Excellent
Joined-up Services for People with both Substance Misuse and Mental
Health Issues? |
| Date: |
24 February 2010 |
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Venue: |
The Queen's Hotel, Leeds |
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Description: |
This key seminar on mental health issues will include topics such
as:
- What can we expect from the Governments forthcoming New
Horizons mental health strategy?
- How can we provide good quality services for people with dual
diagnosis?
- How can official guidelines provide frameworks for coordinated
services for this very disadvantaged group?
- How can multiple service providers collaborate to provide comprehensive
care?
- How can practitioners best recognise and refer dual diagnosis
service users to appropriate care?
- How can we embed joint working and sharing of expertise in operational
procedures?
- How can we enable people with a dual diagnosis improve access
to treatments and services?
- How can we create effective leadership, rigorous training and
coordinated approaches?
- How can we prevent service users falling between services?
- How can we ensure care pathways are in place to facilitate transition
between services?
- How can ensure services do not adversely affect outcomes through
misdiagnoses and inappropriate treatment?
- What combination of incentives, relationships and measures can
best deliver improved integration across sectors?
- How can we reduce the negative outcomes, relapse, demoralisation,
disengagement and non-compliance?
- How do we reduce homelessness, violent behaviour, suicide, hospitalisation,
imprisonment and early mortality?
- How can we stop people with dual diagnosis from being particularly
vulnerable to social exclusion?
- How can we reduce significant impact of associated risks on
the carers/families and children?
- Where can we hope to be in twelve years time?
Key contributors to the seminar will include:
- Professor Louis Appleby - National Director for Mental
Health, England
- Dr Peter Rice, Chair, Ministerial Working Group on Mental
Health and Substance Misuse in Scotland
- Luke Mitcheson, Clinical Psychologist, National Treatment
Agency
- Mark Holland, Consultant Nurse, Dual Diagnosis, Manchester
Mental Health & Social Care Trust
- Inspector Michael Brown, Mental Health Staff Officer,
West Midlands Police
- Dr Gill Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist, The Retreat,
York
- Angus Skinner, Formal Chief Inspector of Social Work,
Scotland
- Tom Dodd, Dual Diagnosis Programme Lead, National Mental
Health Development Unit
- Sue Baumgardt, Carer
- Yasmin Batliwala JP, Chair, Westminster Drug Project
Source: CPPSeminars.org.uk
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| Contact: |
For more information and to book visit : http://www.cppseminars.org.uk/
for more details
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| Title: |
Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Young People
- What its for, where it's at and how to make it even better |
| Date: |
24 February 2010 |
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Venue: |
ORT House Conference Centre, London |
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Description: |
In the last few years there has been a major expansion of specialist
drug and alcohol services for young people yet we still have a lot
to learn about providing them with effective treatment and adult
services provide limited guidance. This conference will help you:
- understand current policy frameworks for young people's drug
and alcohol treatment
- examine the distinctive characteristics of drug and alcohol
problems for young people, and the relationship to other problems
- highlight and showcase innovative practice and provide opportunities
to hear from and talk with people providing specialist drug and
alcohol services for young people
- identify the problems of transition and the development of transitional
services
Source: Pavilion
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| Contact: |
For delegates wishing to book, please complete the booking
form [pdf 743 KB] and either fax it back to us on 0844 880 5062,
or post it to the address: G. Cannon, Marketing Executive - Conferences,
Pavilion, Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, East Sussex,
BN2 3RL or email info@pavpub.com
; visit : http://www.pavpub.com/
for full conference details
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| Title: |
CHT Annual Conference - Psychosis and Substance
Misuse |
| Date: |
5 March 2010 |
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Venue: |
The Royal Society of Medicine,
London |
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Description: |
The high prevalence of alcohol and drug misuse in those with psychiatric
illness is apparent to all who work within adult psychiatry. Street
drugs can trigger the onset of psychosis.
Traditionally, mental health and addiction services have operated
in parallel. Differences between the two services in terms of organisation,
geographical location and philosophy of care have often meant that
patients have fallen between the two, leading to frustration for
patients, families and staff.
The past 10 years have seen increased understanding of the reasons
for this comorbidity, the development of innovative integrated treatment
services and the introduction of new treatments for substance misuse.
This conference explores current thinking in this area of work.
Who should attend:
- Those dealing with patients/clients/residents suffering from
mental ill health who use illicit drugs
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- CPNs
- Psychotherapists
- Care workers in the addiction or mental health fields
Source: Pavilion
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| Contact: |
For further information visit : http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/conferences/showfull.asp?Conference=893
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| Title: |
Be careful what you wish for : Families,
drugs and alcohol: involvement or support? |
| Date: |
23 March 2010 |
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Venue: |
ORT House Conference Centre, London |
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Description: |
Since its establishment in 1984, Adfam has worked to support families
affected by substance misuse. Over the past year it has been involving
into an umbrella organisation, committed to representing the views
of its supporters to policymakers and opinion shapers. As part of
this development Adfam has consulted with professionals and volunteers
across a wide range of sectors to gather information about the issues
which are crucial to the future of family support.
The following issues will be considered at this conference:
- Families and workforce development
- Families involved in treatment
- Support and interventions of families in their own right
- The cost of caring for a drug user
- Families and primary care
- Think family: the DCSF perspective
Source: Pavilion
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| Contact: |
For further information visit : http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/conferences/showfull.asp?Conference=699
or download the booking form/flyer: booking_form_23032010
[ pdf 1.1 MB]
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| Title: |
Mental Health and Substance Use |
| Date: |
25 March 2010 |
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Venue: |
ORT House Conference Centre, London |
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Description: |
Government guidance on supporting people with co-occurring substance
misuse and mental health problems was published in 2002. Yet many
people in this group find themselves being batted between substance
misuse and mental health services or receive no service at all.
Too many end up living impoverished lives, excluded from their communities,
denied an ordinary life and frequently in trouble with the law.
People with a dual diagnosis tend to have multiple and complex
problems. They do not fit into the neat silos constructed by public
services. Instead they need integrated support from a variety of
providers in order for care to be effective.
This conference aims to address the issue of complexity and looks
at both developing policy and practice to achieve real integrated
services.
Key themes of this conference will be:
- explore policy and its implementation for people of all age
groups with dual diagnosis and complex problems
- scan the horizons and look at future developments in this area
- look at best practice examples of providing integrated services
- look at commissioning for dual diagnosis and complex care in
a variety of settings
- explore the interface with the criminal justice system for people
with dual diagnosis
- explore the users own perspectives on the care they get
and the care they need
Source: Pavilion
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| Contact: |
For further information visit : http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/conferences/showfull.asp?Conference=889
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| Title: |
Drugs and Alcohol Today |
| Date: |
13 April 2010 |
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Venue: |
Business Design Centre, London |
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Description: |
This year's Drug and Alcohol Today explores the theme of 'New
Decade, New Challenges'.
The event features:
- 50 stands from organisations working across drug and alcohol
misuse
- 12 seminars exploring the direction of policy and practice
- Arts zone
- New drugs awareness zone
- Training and Development zone
Networking with 1,000 drug and alcohol workers
Source: Pavilion
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| Contact: |
For further information and to book: http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/microsites/DAATApril2010/
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| Title: |
Integrating Practice and Policy: everyone's
business - Working with Drug and Alcohol Users in Primary Care 2010 |
| Date: |
22 - 23 April 2010 |
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Venue: |
SECC, Glasgow |
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Description: |
The Royal College of General Practitioners Sex, Drugs and HIV Task
Group is organising this major conference. Among the topics to be
covered include:
- Exploring the recovery debate and personalisation of treatment
- Redefining harm reduction
- Linkages between substance misuse, deprivation and social exclusion
- Hidden harm in primary care
- Tackling Hepatitis C - have we got it right?
Ethan Nadelmann, of the US Drug Policy Alliance; David
Liddell, Director of Scottish Drugs Forum,. Dr Mary Hepburn
of the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Dr David McCartney,
Lothian and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme (LEAP) and Dr Roy
Robertson, Edinburgh GP and Reader at Edinburgh University.
The theme for this fifteenth national conference focuses on the
need for all practitioners and services to work together, influenced
by evidence, values, experience and the voice of people with drug
and alcohol problems. We will also consider the importance of the
clinical voice in positively influencing drug policy.
Interested parties are invited to submit posters, papers, film
and other media on any aspect of working with drug and alcohol users
in primary care. Deadline: 19 February 2010. For more information
visit: http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/conf/booking.php?action=home&id=379
Source: Healthcare Events
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| Contact: |
For further information: visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/conf/booking.php?action=home&id=404
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| Title: |
7th UK/European Symposium on Addictive
Disorders, London |
| Date: |
13 - 15 May 2010 |
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Venue: |
London |
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Description: |
Addiction Today and the Addiction Recovery Foundation welcomes
you to Europe's largest conference on addiction treatment which
takes place on 13, 14, 15 May 2010 and brings together around 500
attendees, unique networking, discussions with leaders in the field,
exchange of national and international knowledge, exhibits, music
and play.
Source: Addiction Today
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| Contact: |
For further information obtain details on the Addiction Today website
at: http://www.addictiontoday.org/files/ukesad-2010-programme-1.pdf
PDF [1.2MB]
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