Cornerways

Centre Description

Cornerways, the newest of StreetScenes treatment centres, opened on the 6th November 2006. It provides 20 beds, arranged as 12 singles and 4 doubles, for clients of either sex wishing to recover from addiction and provides both primary and secondary care.

It is a large listed building, situated in its own grounds, surrounded by trees and yet is easy walking distance to Bournemouth Town centre, with its self help groups, college and beach.

UK Rehab Centers / Drug & Alcohol Program

Streetscene

Street Scene is a registered charity offering a residential treatment programme comprising a three-stage abstinence model, which includes a biopsychosocial approach to the treatment of addictive behaviours including drug and alcohol dependence. This involves both 12-step and cognitive behavioural learning approaches. The charity operates in three locations - two in Bournemouth and one in Southampton and clients can benefit from the range of on-going support and recovery facilities available in the area.

The programme is structured and as well as dealing directly with the drug and/or alcohol dependence offers relapse prevention coping skills, introduction to a local further education college and local support networks. Rolling day-care and aftercare is offered on completion of the Relapse Prevention Workshops primary and secondary stages of treatment.

Clients are welcomed from anywhere in the UK. Referrals are accepted from all statutory and voluntary agencies as well as self and family referrals. Contact the above address for full details of the programme and admission.

The Charity Philosophy

StreetScene is a registered charity, set up in 1990. Its main purpose is to help people suffering from the disease of addiction to recover.

StreetScene is made up of men and women who are dedicated to this aim. We believe that everyone who has this disease deserves the opportunity to change his or her lives. That we are here to offer hope, help and opportunities for this change to take place and begin to repair the damage caused by addiction.

We believe that people have the ability to change, and are entitled to a quality of life. We believe that we can support people in this change with knowledge, experience, respect, care for people’s needs, and a safe and secure environment.

We believe that addiction is a huge problem throughout society. All of us at StreetScene do what we do because we want to make a difference. As a charity we are not set up to make a profit but to use all our resources to provide the best provision we can, with quality, care, respect, and the ability to treat each person as an individual at their time of need.
Most of the staff have personal experience of both addiction and recovery, either their own or a family member and are involved in this work because they care about individuals battles against this disease.

Aims & Objectives
Our aim is one of continual improvement. Continual monitoring of what we do looking for new ways to meet peoples needs effectively. We also aim to expand our services to meet needs which we so far haven’t tackled, all this with the help of the people who come to our units telling us what we can do to improve, whilst always remaining focussed on our main aim of helping people suffering from addiction to recover.

StreetScene is a charity funded by community care money and donations from various charitable trusts. The charity is run by a Board of Trustees and steering committee who are responsible for all policies, finance, employment matters, and the premises run by StreetScene. During your time here you will meet the Trustees, one of whom visits each unit every month. Please feel free to ask them or tell them anything you feel about the running of the unit.

De-tox

This year StreetScene has started a tail-end detox programme, this is because so many clients find the end of a detox a difficult time and that coupled with arriving in treatment as soon as the detox is finished can add considerably to the stress of cleaning up.

What can now happen is that a client can complete their detox in treatment. For this, a client generally starts their detox where they live, but is admitted to treatment before the detox has finished.

In order to do this we have set up a new protocol, which has been agreed by the Commission for Social Care Inspection.

The pieces of legislation we are complying with are.

The Medicines Act 1968
Data Protection Act 1998
The Care Standards Act 2000
Misuse Of Drugs Regulation 2001
All controlled drugs medication is locked in a safe, which is locked inside the medication cabinet and is in the Project Office. This means behind 3 locks.
The keys are held by the responsible person on duty.
Only trained members of staff are allowed to dispense medication.
All staff are trained by Boots the chemist in dispensing of medication and using the boots MDS system. This system also incorporates the five rights of medication offering, i.e. right person, right medication, right dose, right time and right route. This system follows the current guidelines set by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. Commission For Social Care Inspection (CSCI) also approve this system.
All staff are trained in:
Receipt Of Medication.
Administration of Medication/Record Keeping.
Refusal of Medication.
Disposal Of Medication.
Ordering Of Medication.
Each service user will have a generated Medication Administration Record (MAR chart) this is a working document, which is signed to record administration of medication by 2 members of staff.
All service users on medication will also have photographic identity as a fail safe.
All medication that has been prescribed by the GP needs to be clearly written for the length of the detox regime, all prescriptions for a methadone detox have to be prescribed daily, written on separate prescriptions for daily use but the GP must endorse only 1 collection day per week.
All prescriptions need to be forwarded to Boots the chemist in Bournemouth along with details of the reduction.
A Member of Staff on a weekly basis will pick up the prescriptions.

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