Shared Care

Contact Details

Shared Care Substance Misuse Team

Castleford, Normanton & District Hospital
Lumley Street
Hightown
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 5LT

Telephone: 01977 665713

Fax: 01977 665955

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Substance Misuse Shared Care Service

Shared Care has been established now for approximately 5 years. The service comprises of 4 clinical staff and two administrators who are based as a team at the Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital site. The clinical workers provide substance misuse clinics in conjunction with lead GPs at 18 surgeries across the district. This allows patients to access their treatment at a more convenient location to themselves and provides them with a more inclusive treatment package. The whole team strive to provide our patients with a service that allows them to concentrate on developing their lives rather than remaining locked in treatment.

The Shared Care service has a service level agreement with each of their surgeries that includes a GP which is qualified, as a minimum requirement, to the Royal College of General Practitioners Certificate in Managing Substance Misuse in Primary Care - part 1 (www.rcgp.org.uk). The respective GP and members of the Shared Care team continually keep abreast of current developments and information (www.smmgp.org.uk) through various sources relating to substance misuse treatment and trends.

The whole of the Shared Care team are working towards the goal of helping all patients to reintegrate with society and not to be a marginalised group, and to this aim strive to include carers and families of substance misuse patients in the treatment plan as well as all other professionals that could be seen as beneficial to the patient's treatment outcomes.

Shared Care take the patient's view of their own treatment package very seriously and their involvement in treatment plans and care plans is always sought in conjunction with that of the professionals involved in their treatment. We also strive to take note of the patient's views of the whole treatment experience and as such regular patient satisfaction surveys and questionnaires will be circulated and the resulting information will go to develop future services for our patient group.

Shared Care helps the patients that have children look at how their substance misuse can impact upon their child's development and facilitate development and inclusion.

Services offered

Psychosocial interventions

Motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and social behaviour therapies. This provides patients within Shared Care access to therapists that can help with their cravings and thought processes, look at ways of developing social support networks that include family members as well as other professional organisations. All of which enables the patient to take a more proactive lead in their treatment.

Wellbeing

We work closely with the surgery staff, providing hepatitis testing and vaccinations; wound and tissue viability. The close work with practice nurses also helps promote a better wellbeing approach to our patient's care looking at issues related to diet, respiratory conditions, weight and smoking.

Health Visitor/Midwife

Patients who are pregnant can remain within Shared Care and receive all the relevant treatment and advice, between the midwife and health visitor, we have access to substance misuse specialists that can liaise with the surgery team, or take over our patient's care in both these areas.