{"id":81518,"date":"2017-06-13T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97133933908fb6098232c89c37bce55e"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:36:07","slug":"news-story-uae-delegation-visits-pioneering-uk-drug-rehabilitation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81518","title":{"rendered":"News story: UAE delegation visits pioneering UK drug rehabilitation services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to UK drug rehabilitation services has resulted in the Director General of the UAE\u2019s National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) appointing teams to drive forward detailed negotiations.  The UAE intention is to secure active partnerships with the UK this financial year.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"uk-expertise-in-drug-rehabilitation-attracts-repeat-visits-from-uae\">UK expertise in drug rehabilitation attracts repeat visits from UAE<\/h2>\n<p>This was the second visit recently from senior staff at the National Rehabilitation Centre in Abu Dhabi to see UK drug rehabilitation expertise and services.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted and planned by Healthcare UK, this visit was led by His Excellency Dr. Hamad Al Ghaferi, Director General of the UAE\u2019s National Rehabilitation Centre.  The mission included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head of Nursing Dr. Samya Al Mamari<\/li>\n<li>Dr Shamil Wanigaratne, adviser to His Excellency and clinical psychologist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"uk-healthcare-centres-of-excellence\">UK healthcare centres of excellence<\/h2>\n<p>The mission team visited a selection of centres of excellence in the UK drug rehabilitation sector, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Priory Group\u2019s <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.priorygroup.com\/location-results\/item\/life-works-woking\">Life Works<\/a> centre for the treatment of addictions and behavioural health disorders at Woking<\/li>\n<li>a prisoner\u2019s rehabilitation service at <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/contacts\/prison-finder\/brixton\">HMP Brixton<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>the high security forensic unit at <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slam.nhs.uk\/\">South London and Maudsley <abbr title=\"National Health Service\">NHS<\/abbr> Foundation Trust<\/a> for those with severe mental health issues that pose a risk to the public and themselves<\/li>\n<li>the drug rehabilitation nursing unit at <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnwl.nhs.uk\/\">Central and North West London <abbr title=\"National Health Service\">NHS<\/abbr> Foundation Trust<\/a>, which is pioneering the use of specialist nurses in rehabilitation services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"healthcare-uk-contact\">Healthcare UK contact<\/h2>\n<p>Contact us at <a href=\"mailto:healthcare.uk@trade.gov.uk\">healthcare.uk@trade.gov.uk<\/a> for more information about UK drug rehabilitation services or to discuss support with exporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from the United Arab Emirates\u2019 National Rehabilitation Centre inspect additional UK centres of excellence looking to do business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}