The Queen's Nursing Institute

The Queen's Nursing Institute works with the public, nurses and decision-makers to make sure that good quality nursing is available at home for everyone when they need it.

In this section:

For nurses

Why not enjoy a short visit or a long day out at a National Gardens Scheme garden and show your support for one of the QNI's major funders.

Supporting the Fund for Innovation and Leadership.

Visit our District Nursing 150 website, a celebration of the vibrant one hundred and fifty year history of District Nursing in the UK.

Mental Health

QUESTION: One of the big issues I face every day is a lack of joined up working from mental health and drug and alcohol teams for people with co-occurring mental ill health and substance misuse. I'd love to hear about a team that has sorted this out to the benefit of patients.

ANSWER: We are a charity and our substance misuse worker is seconded to Addaction for a regular time each week and this works well. He also attends their ABC meetings and we have good communication links with the outreach substance workers.

QUESTION: I have recently set up a homeless mental health service and wondered if you have any info on homeless and acquired brain injury (ABI) and homeless and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

ANSWERS: There is an ABI/homelessness project in Leeds. It’s been running a year and a half so far and is the only current ABI focused homeless project in the world since the one in Canada ended.

There is a lot of information on the web from Steven Hwang at the University of Toronto who pioneered work in this area. See http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/faculty_template_new.asp?GetFile=sHwang