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The Richmond Community Drug and Alcohol Team

The Richmond Community Drug and Alcohol Team (RCDAT) is a joint team of health and social care professionals.

We provide specialist assessments, advice, information, counselling, and access to rehabilitation/treatment services for people with drug or alcohol problems.

After assessment, we may also be able to arrange residential rehabilitation and detoxification.

Our services

RCDAT is a Tier 3 structured community-based drug treatment service under Models of Care.

Tier 3 structured services include:

  • Psychotherapeutic interventions and structured counselling
  • Motivational interventions
  • Methadone maintenance programmes
  • Community detoxification
  • Harm reduction
  • Community-based aftercare programmes for drug and alcohol misusers leaving residential rehabilitation or prison

Under Tier 3 drug misusers have access to the following services:

  • Community care assessment, care management and care coordination services
  • Specialist community-based detoxification
  • Shared-care prescribing and support treatment via primary care
  • Structured care planned counselling and therapies
  • Adult mental health services to meet the needs of drug users with Dual Diagnosis.
  • Liaison with drug misuse services to ensure throughcare and aftercare support programmes
  • Community-based drug rehabilitation orders

Eligibility criteria

  • Individuals over the age of 18 years within the London Borough of Richmond
  • The service operates in accordance with the Models of Care Tier 3 criteria.

How are people referred to the service?

  • Self referrals
  • Carers
  • GP
  • Other professionals
  • Voluntary sector

Is self referral possible? Yes

Are services open access? No

Who is in the team?

  • 1 Team Manager
  • 1 Consultant Psychiatrist 5 sessions
  • 1 staff grade 5 sessions
  • 3 Social workers
  • 4 Nurses
  • 1 Psychologist 2 sessions
  • 1 Data Manager 6 sessions
  • 1 administrator

Case loads on average are approximately 225

RCDAT work closely with the Laison Priamry care Nurse, DIP, SPEAR, Cranstoun, Tasha. These services are all based near to RCDAT in the Hamlet.

Contact the Richmond Community Drug and Alcohol Team

Richmond Health Care Hamlet

Kew Foot Road
Richmond
TW9 2TE

Telephone: 020 8940 3331
Fax: 020 8332 6034

We are open between 9.00am to 5.00pm. The acute clinic operates from ATC Queen Mary’s Hospital between Tuesday and Thursday.