Danny Morris Resume 2016
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Danny Morris has over 30 years of experience in social care, health, and substance use fields. He has extensive experience in areas such as detached outreach work with homeless drug users, HIV and HCV prevention, and drug treatment service management. He now works as an independent training and consultant, providing training on topics like harm reduction and hepatitis C treatment. He has trained professionals across the UK, Europe, and internationally. Danny also holds several roles related to hepatitis C treatment and harm reduction with organizations like the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Danny Morris Resume 2016
- 1. PROFILE Since 1983 Danny Morris has developed extensive experience in the social care and health 鍖elds. Much of this work has been in substance use and has included development and delivery of detached community work with homeless drug users; outreach HIV and HCV prevention and NSP to hard to reach groups and management of comprehensive drug treatment services. He has experience working as a commissioner in the Drugs/HIV/BBV 鍖eld. As his experiences over the years have evolved, his understanding has informed an ongoing commitment to the development of progressive and evidence based practice that enhances all aspects of drug treatment provision, effectively engages users into treatment, reduces drug related harms, in particular the reduction of blood borne viruses, enhancing access to testing and treatment options and supports individual development and optimises outcomes . His work strives to meet the diverse needs of service users focussing on access to digni鍖ed responses, human rights and drug user involvement. He is an accomplished trainer and has, for over eighteen years, been providing training specialising in harm reduction practice and theory and treatment interventions. He operates both as an independent consultant and in close collaboration with other established freelance trainers and researchers, working with organisations to produce local, national UK and international guidance that supports delivery of effective harm reduction interventions with an emphasis on improving injecting related practices, reduction of BBVs and overdose and enhancing access to naloxone. He was the development training lead for the Welsh Assembly Government National Take Home Naloxone (THN) Programme and facilitated training across community and prison settings. His work is underpinned by and extends to the delivery of tailored team building and organisational work that supports the management of constructive change to maximise bene鍖ts of service delivery. He was commissioned by Correlation II European Network Social Inclusion and Health in partnership with the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network as a project manager and consultant developing a Hepatitis C Treatment and Care training manual targeting ministries of health, policy makers, heath care professional and harm reduction workers with a focus on enhancing testing and treatment for injecting drug users across Central and Eastern Europe. This training programme is now being delivered across Europe and has recently been translated into Russian to support capacity building in Russian speaking countries and more recently into Spanish and Catalan. 1/6
- 2. He has contributed to and written published articles and guidance and presented at numerous national and international drug related conferences. He is an Associate Lecturer at University of Worcester, UK ; previously a director of, and now steering group member of the UK Harm Reduction Alliance and a member of Harm Reduction International. Until December 2015 was the Operational Manager for an NHS Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service with strategic responsibility for providing a range of practical, health and therapeutic recovery focussed interventions for drug and alcohol users. Responsibilities included ensuring service delivery in-line with strategic objectives, involve initiating new work programmes, integrating drug and alcohol treatment provision, embedding a recovery focus across treatment domains to enhance drug and alcohol treatment outcomes, establishing a trained volunteering programme and being the organisational lead for service tendering as part of drug and alcohol services re-commissioning. Danny is the Expert Lead for the RCGP Certi鍖cate in the Detection,Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B & C in Primary Care. He was a professional member on the Public Health Programme Development Group (PDG) for the NICE guidance on Hepatitis B and C and more recently represents the RCGP in the development of the NICE clinical guideline for Hepatitis C. He sits on the steering group of DrugWatch , an informal network of charities, organisations and individuals working in the UK drug treatment 鍖eld set up to 鍖nd a way of creating information to complement Early Warning Systems that is of a practical use to drug workers and drug users. Our main aim is to promote a standardised way of recording and reporting concerns about new or adulterated drugs.Danny is one of the key members of the England Naloxone Action Group (NAG) which was set up in late 2014 to press for wider availability of naloxone in England. Danny has co-authored Hep C Care: Living with hepatitis C and Treatment Options, which was Highly Commended for the 2015 BMA Patient Information Awards. Danny lives and works on a community farm where he has key roles and responsibilities for dairy milking and farm machinery maintenance. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Day and Residential Trainee Care Worker Programme Certi鍖cate, LB Barnet Social Services, 1980 Certi鍖cate of Quali鍖cation in Social Work, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1986 Certi鍖cate in Youth and Community Work, Inner London Education Authority, 1987 Certi鍖cate in Counselling (Formal/Informal Settings), Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1990 Training The Trainers, Tom Aldridge, London Borough Camden, 1991 Certi鍖cate in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Brief Therapy Practice, London, 1992 Certi鍖cate in Management Studies, City of Westminster Council, 1994 Practitioners Diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, John Seymour and Associates, 2001 RCGP Certi鍖cate in Harm Reduction, Health and Wellbeing for Substance Users, 2011 RCGP Certi鍖cate in the Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B and C in Primary Care 2012 RCGP Certi鍖cate in the Management of Alcohol Problems in Primary Care, 2014 2/6
- 3. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY October 2014 December 2015: Operational Manager, Drug and Alcohol Services Herefordshire, 2gether NHS Foundation Trust April 2012 present: Expert Lead, RCGP Certi鍖cate in the Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B and C in Primary Care April 2011 October 2014: Development Manager, Drug and Alcohol Services Herefordshire, 2gether NHS Foundation Trust Jan 2011 April 2012: Clinical Lead, RCGP Certi鍖cate in Harm Reduction, Health and Wellbeing for Substance Users, Royal College of General Practitioners June 2004 present: Freelance training and consultancy 2004 April 2011: Development Manager, Drug Services Herefordshire, Herefordshire Primary Care NHS Trust Sep 1994 - June 2004: Operational Manager, Drug and Alcohol Services Herefordshire, Herefordshire Primary Care NHS Trust Jan 1994 - Sep 1994: Senior Care Manager (HIV/Drugs/Alcohol),City of Westminster Social Services Department Oct 1990 - Dec 1994: Outreach Worker(HIV/Drugs), Response Community Drug Team, London Borough of Camden Social Services/Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust Aug 1986 - Oct 1990: Detached Youth Worker, Soho Project, Inner London Education Authority Oct 1979 - Sep 1984: Residential Social Worker, London Borough Of Barnet Social Services FREELANCE TRAINING & CONSULTANCY: CLIENTS Addaction, Middlesborough Addaction, Hackney Ana Liffey Drug Project, Dublin BARCA. Leeds Barking & Dagenham Drug & Alcohol Action Team Barnet PCT Barnsley Drug and Alcohol Action Team Blenheim CDP CASP, Dublin Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust 3/6
- 4. Cornwall & IOS Drug & Alcohol Action Team Correlation, European Network Social Inclusion and Health CRI/Camden DIP CRI/Lambeth DIP Cyswllt Contact Department of Health Derbyshire Drug & Alcohol Action Team Dorset County Council Drink & Drug News Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service, Telford & Wrekin Council Drug Concern, Guernsey Drugs & Homeless Initiative Exchange Supplies LTD Exeter Drugs Project Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) Greenwich Drug & Alcohol Action Team Global Health Research Center of Central Asia, Kazakhstan States of Guernsey, Drug and Alcohol Strategy HARCAS Hambleton and Richmondshire Community Addiction Service Hepatitis C Trust Herefordshire Post Graduate Medical Centre HIT Lighthouse Project Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Action Team Lambeth Service User Council The London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C Luton Drug and Alcohol Partnership Mainliners National Institute for Health Development, Estonia National Public Health Service for Wales National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse Newham Criminal Justice Intervention Team Newlink Wales North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland Peterborough City Council Public Health England Public Health Agency, N Ireland Pip Mason Consultancy Ltd RAPt (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) Redbridge Drug & Alcohol Action Team Royal College of General Practitioners Rotherham Alcohol and Drug Strategy Team Safer Hartlepool Partnership Salvation Army, Cardiff Southend Drug & AlcoholAction Team South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Southwark PCT Staffordhire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team 4/6
- 5. Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP) SUSSED User Groups, Bedford and Cambridge. Swansea Drugs Project Swanswell Trust Drugs Task Force, Dublin Tower Hamlets Drug Action Team University of Worcester Welsh Assembly Government Worcestershire Drug Interventions Programme World Hepatitis Alliance Wirral Drug and Alcohol Action Team REFEREES Linda Harris Medical Director Substance Misuse and Associated Health Royal College of General Practitioners 30 Euston Square London NW1 2FB UK +44 (0) 7970 899059 linda.Harris@spectrum-cic.nhs.uk Mark Hemming Director Mental Health 2gether NHS Foundation Trust for Herefordshire Monkmoor Court 31-34 Commercial Road Hereford HR1 2BG UK +44 (0 1432 361669 mark.hemming@herefordpct.nhs.uk Andrew Preston Exchange Supplies 1, Great Western Industrial Centre Dorchester Dorset DT1 1RD UK +44 (0) 1305 262244 andrew@exchangesupplies.org 5/6
- 6. Neil Hunt Freelance researcher and trainer Treacle Towers 55 Mackenders Lane Eccles Kent, ME20 7JA UK +44 (0) 1622 717652 neil@neilhunt.org CRIMINAL RECORDS DISCLOSURE Disclosure Number: 001219230604 6/6