Services

Who are we? We are a nurse led service of two Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) provided by South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

We aim to:
Improve the experience and quality of life of people living with dementia and their carers to have better integrated and coordinated care after their diagnosis.

Improve access to appropriate care and support at the appropriate time.

Reducing premature placements of people with dementia into residential and nursing care homes.

Improving End of Life Care support such as Advance Care Planning opportunities.

Who can use the service?
We work with anyone aged 18 or over, with a confirmed diagnosis of dementia. They must live at home at the point of referral and be registered with a Lewisham GP. You can access our service through your GP, Social Care and other professionals (or you can self-refer).

What happens at the service?
We arrange to see the person with dementia, and anyone offering support, about how the memory issues are affecting their life. This is likely to be at home but we can see you in other places if you wish.

What support can the Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialists offer?

• Offer a holistic review of the person with dementia and their carers' needs.
• Offer advice about management of physical, psychological social and spiritual issues that may affect people living with dementia.
• Advise on Crisis management and interventions to prevent this.
• Help with care planning and consider Advance Care Planning if you wish to, with you and your carers.
• Refer you on to other teams like the dementia advisors or Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), if necessary.

CNS review to inform the Annual Dementia review in Primary Care.

The Drugs and Alcohol Consortium (Lambeth) is a consortium led by the Trust in partnership with We are With You (formerly Addaction), Humankind and Phoenix Futures.

We provide assessment, treatment and advice for people, aged over 18, who have substance misuse (drugs and/or alcohol) related problems. We care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.

We provide a Tier 2 addictions assessment and brief intervention clinic, and a Tier 3 addictions assessment and treatment service.

Tier 2 services provide drug-related information, advice, assessment, referrals, interventions (including needle exchange) and aftercare.

Tier 3 services provide specialised drug assessments, treatment, care and referrals, delivered in the community or on hospital sites. They provide people with a care plan and a key worker. They are often delivered alongside Tier 2 services, in the same premises and by the same staff.

**Due to COVID treatment is being offered remotely where possible**

The Bexley Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) Service is part of the Addiction service based at Erith Health Centre. We provide specialist assessment, treatment and care for people, aged over 18, who misuse drugs.

We care for people who live in the London Borough of Bexley.

We provide specialist assessment, treatment and care for people, aged over 18, who are referred through the courts on a DRR Order.

A DRR service provides offenders with fast access to drug treatment programmes where their criminal behaviour is associated with drug misuse. The aim of a DDR is to reduce drug-related offending.

We care for people who live in the London Borough of Bexley, and for people in the borough who are homeless, of no fixed abode, and claiming social care benefits.

Our treatment programmes include rehabilitation, counselling and prescribing alternatives to drugs. We also provide advice and support on housing, relationships, employment and education.

We work with other teams in health and social care to help people to maintain their health and their independence.