Why drug and alcohol recovery is essential for health services
The second post of the series, which discusses the top ten service concerns surrounding recovery, challenges the notion that recovery orientated care adds to the burden of an already stretched...
View ArticleWhy being in recovery doesn't necessarily mean being drug-free
In the third of our series addressing service concerns about drug and alcohol recovery, we look into if a person can be 'cured' if they are still using illicit substances. The term 'recovery' is not a...
View ArticleWhy recovery from drug and alcohol addiction is not just a fad
The fourth in our blog series on service concerns about drug and alcohol recovery responds to claims that recovery is a 'fad' which raises false hopes and positions patients to fail. Even amongst...
View ArticleWhy recovery from drug and alcohol addiction is not just achievable for the...
This blog, the fifth in our series on service concerns within drug and alcohol recovery, addresses the misconception that recovery happens for very few people with severe dependency problems. In...
View ArticleIs recovery only achievable with acceptance of one's own drug and alcohol...
In part six of our series on service concerns about drug and alcohol recovery, we explore the notion that recovery is only possible once an addicted person develops insight into their own dependency....
View ArticleIs a bigger budget the only answer for improving drug and alcohol recovery...
The seventh blog in this series, addressing the top ten service concerns about recovery, tackles the age-old issue of funding. Unlike some of the other most prevalent service concerns we've identified...
View ArticleHow can we determine the value of recovery-oriented services if these are not...
This blog series addresses the top ten service concerns in our industry about drug and alcohol recovery. In part eight, we propose that recovery-oriented services need not be evidence based. It...
View ArticleWhat is the practitioner's role if patients lead their own drug and alcohol...
Part nine of our series discussing service concerns about drug and alcohol recovery focuses on the implications of a patient-centric approach. Recovery models recognise that many people succeed in...
View ArticleIs drug and alcohol recovery a risky business?
As drug and alcohol service providers, we are responsible for the recovery treatments we facilitate, just as we are those who seek them. Both services and the individuals that work within them consent...
View ArticleEarly findings suggest that sociability is linked to successful treatment
As drug and alcohol service providers, we are keenly interested in looking at the potential links between feelings of wellbeing and the effectiveness of drug and alcohol treatment. Early findings from...
View ArticleDoes gender impact on the response to treatment?
Our initial survey into the link between feelings of wellbeing and the effectiveness of drug and alcohol treatment has already thrown up some interesting challenges to traditional thinking....
View ArticleMore evidence to suggest gender influences treatment
Following on from our initial study into gaining a better understanding of the potential relationship between wellbeing and treatment, we have now completed a further round of evaluation. This time...
View ArticleThe pain of losing a service?
I've been reading a lot this week about the state of the NHS on it's 65th birthday and finding it particularly poignant. This week we handed over our oldest contracts in North Lancashire to a new...
View ArticlePatient Centred Leadership
The King's Fund have produced a report looking at the future of leadership within the NHS. What I am struck by is how closely this report mirrors our own aspirations within Delphi. It is called...
View ArticleLancaster University among those looking sight loss and substance use
I recently read with interest of the commissioning of a number of Universities including Lancaster, to undertake some exploratory research around substance use and sight loss. Commissioned by the...
View ArticleRise in prescriptions issued to treat alcohol dependency makes for alarming...
The 73% rise in prescriptions to treat alcohol dependency in England over the last decade makes alarming reading and highlights the fact that providing access to drugs without the necessary help that...
View ArticleInspiring to say the least
Following a recent 'Dephi Day' where all staff were invited to The Mill at Stone, Staffordshire, we've had some extremely positive feedback from those who attended with one message in particular...
View ArticleHMP Buckley Hall recovery Wing Launched
On the 18th of July the new Recovery Wing at HMP Buckley Hall was officially opened. This event was well attended by DARS, Prison, partner agencies, commissioners and prisoners to establish the way...
View ArticleSupporting the call for more drugs LESs
The continuing discussion regarding the call for more drugs LESs reminded me of an interesting article written by Sofia Lind in Pulse back in January this year. As I'm sure most of us recognise,...
View ArticlePublic Health England's routes to recovery mapping manual is a must read
I couldn't let its release pass, by not commending Public Health England's recently published mapping manual titled 'Routes to Recovery via the Community'. It's an excellent document bringing it all...
View ArticleI wish him every success
It was great to read about Mark Gilman in the Guardian recently, pointing out the great resource the fellowship has to offer and his aim for the country's addiction treatment services to tap into what...
View ArticleNew report from the Centre for Social Justice makes for difficult reading
'No Quick Fix', a report by the Centre for Social Justice released this week looking into the depth of Britain's drug and alcohol problems. paints a very bleak picture indeed. It exposes the...
View ArticleDelphi HMIP Inspection Report - Drake Hall
As a Medical Director I am obviously pleased but also extremely proud of the feedback received following the latest HMIP Report for Drake Hall where Delphi Medical is delivering a range of clinical...
View ArticleSefton Community Service
We are very excited (and a bit frazzled) at Delphi this week as we run up to our launch date for Sefton Treatment and Recovery Service. We are due to go live on the 1st of October and we are really...
View ArticleRecovery Partnership State of the Sector Survey
Delphi Medical is pleased to have contributed to the 'Recovery Partnership State of the Sector Survey' being conducted by Drug Scope on behalf of the Recovery Partnership. It aims to take a snapshot...
View ArticleA shocking reality
I couldn't help but comment on the article I read in the Mirror earlier this month which reported a staggering 807 people died in Britain last year from over-the-counter and prescription drugs such as...
View ArticleEmerging problem of 'legal highs' within the prison setting
The experiences of one prison governor in Scotland might well be a warning of a growing problem facing the wider penal system in terms of how it combats the influx of 'legal high' drugs as a way of...
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Volunteering in Peru - A Delphi nurse talks about her experience
Volunteering in Peru - a Delphi nurse talks about her experience Many of us at Delphi have been waiting to hear back from one of our nursing team who has been volunteering in Peru with street...
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Values made real
Melanie Taylor joined Delphi Medical just over 12 months ago after spending 13 years working in the Prison and Civil Service where mission, vision and value statements were, as is often the case,...
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Call me Dr Mo!
November has been an interesting month for me as my first time participating in the global grassroots public health even that is 'Movember'. If you've been hiding under a rock or awakened from a coma...
View ArticleLight illuminates Shadow Defines
We're very proud to have launched our new calendar for 2014 entitled 'Light Illuminates Shadow Defines' which was produced collaboratively between Bad Kamra, a not-for-profit video production company...
View ArticleHealth Watch Report on Blackpool Health Mela
The recent report on the 1st Fylde Coast Health Mela held in Blackpool on Saturday 5th October can be read by clicking here. A very worthy and successful event I think we all agree!
View ArticleMeditation.... (By John Richmond)
A lot of blogs seem to start with - it's been a busy week. So I think I'll start with that as well. But, what I want to talk about is what we could be doing to help us deal with busy...
View ArticleThis week.... (By John Richmond)
This week I am reflecting on the process of recommissioning of services. We are awaiting the result of our bid for Blackpool so it is hard not think about anything else. There is a lot of work...
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Blackpool!! (By John Richmond)
Last week I was blogging about what an unsettling and unsatisfying process bidding for contracts was and how they were only ever any good when you were successful. I was writing that at a time when I...
View ArticleDelphi Day... (By Sefton team member Daniel Duncan)
The Delphi Day began as it meant to go on, as hot and dry as a Karon Brown motivational speech. The Sefton team met at their Bootle base at 0845 sharp. An air of expectation hung in the air, their...
View ArticleNegative Effects of Hypnotics (By John Richmond)
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1996 This recent piece of research highlights the negative effects of hypnotics on our society. I had a conversation yesterday with a patient recently when I was...
View ArticleGetting Things Done... (By John Richmond)
Wow, what a stressful time getting ready for Blackpool. It reinforces for me the importance of getting everything into your to do list manager. At times when work becomes overwhelming and it is just...
View ArticleMerry Christmas... (By John Richmond)
What a year! We must be enjoying ourselves or something⦠I would just like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a great New Year. For the past few years in our house we sit down and take stock of...
View ArticleHedonism... (By John Richmond)
Our work lies in the realm of that much maligned activity: hedonism. People often think of this as a blind drive to happiness at its most basic, and in our current scientific parlance, would be...
View ArticleGet Some Headspace... (By John Richmond)
We are at the end of the first week of meditating at work for Delphi head office. I have managed to fit in three days of meditating and hope to do another session after writing this. It is certainly...
View ArticleThe Delphi Brand... (By John Richmond)
I have been having conversations about the delphi brand this week and it has got me thinking about how we can get it across to people. I would say it is fairly easy for us within the organisation to...
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A student nurse insight into the Delphi Sefton Team
A big thankyou to Kiera for the lovely letter and cake sent to the Delphi Sefton team..... "To all the fabulous staff at Delphi, I just wanted to write this letter to inform you of how honoured I...
View ArticleAccountability... (By John Richmond)
Having had a tumultuous and emotional few weeks at Delphi, on the back of a busy time that precluded me writing a follow up to my last blog on creativity, it is probably a good time to think, and...
View ArticleIn2Recovery- Blog Interview
How would you describe the main aims of your organisation? (It would be great to have a paragraph outlining what you see as your main focus - feel free to sing your own praises!) Delphi Medical is...
View ArticleConsistency (by John Richmond)
Ah, today I am going to write about consistency which is a tricky one for me. I think we can all say that we have at times done things that were not consistent but usually we have justified that to a...
View ArticleAccessibility... (by John Richmond)
Today I am going to write about accessibility. I remember when we were talking about what our core values were back in 2007, that accessibility was a very important core value to me personally. The...
View ArticleJohn's Week
Dear All, I have had a fascinating week this week. no honestly. Monday saw me at the UK council of Caldicott Guardians where I represent Primary Care for England (someone has got to do it) and we had...
View ArticleDelphi Medical working with Patients Know Best
A blog from PKB.... Delphi Medical is a leading independent provider of clinical services for substance misuse patients and the first provider of its type in the UK to put patients in control of...
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