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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.

More detailed information about this service can be found below:

Services provided

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 (for example cognitive behavioural therapy), motivational interventions, methadone maintenance programmes, community detoxification, harm reduction, community-based aftercare programmes for drug and alcohol misusers leaving residential rehabilitation or prison is also included. Under tier 3 drug misusers have access to the following Tier 3 structured services:

  • Community care assessment, care management and Care coordination services
  • Specialist community-based detoxification
  • Shared-care prescribing and support treatment via primary care
  • A range of  structured care planned counselling and therapies
  • Close liaison and partnership working with Adult Mental Health services to meet the needs of drug users with Dual Diagnosis.
  • Liaison drug misuse services ensuring throughcare and aftercare programmes of support in partnership with other service providers
  • The Facilitation of Community-based drug rehabilitation orders

Eligibility criteria

  • The Richmond Community Drug and Alcohol Team provides a service for 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.

The service is currently undergoing a major service redesign with the aim of producing a new model by June 06. The aim is to further develop the current liaison model of service delivery

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 3 sessions but 5 from April
  • 3 Social workers
  • 4 Nurses
  • 1 Psychologist 2 sessions
  • 1 Data Manager 6 sessions
  • 1 administrator

Case loads on average are approximately 225

RCDAT have a strong liaison and partnership role with the Laison Priamry care Nurse, DIP, SPEAR, Cranstoun, Tasha. These services are all based in close proximity 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

9.00am to 5.00pm – the acute clinic operates from ATC Queen Mary’s Hospital between Tuesday and Thursday.