Alcohol Liaison Service

Our Alcohol Liaison Service provides support to patients presenting with alcohol-related issues. 

The service includes:

• One-to-one support of patients and families.
• Access all areas: the team will see patients who are inpatients, attending via the Emergency Department, and via an outpatient appointment.
• Screening, assessment and daily reviews of referred patients.
• Referral to community support pathways.
• Liaison with community partners including homeless services, housing providers, police, probation, drug and alcohol services locally and country-wide and voluntary services.
• Collaboration with very high-intensity user (VHIU) lead and support for complex case reviews.
• Peer support as appropriate.
• Nurse-led outpatient clinics (via internal referral pathway), which are run one morning a week.
• Teaching and training for staff, patients and relatives.

The service is available Monday to Friday 8am-4pm.