title: Enabling early intervention.
abstract: The Hospital Alcohol Liaison Service (HALS) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was set up in 2013 following concern about the rising number of admissions for alcohol-related liver disease. Nurse specialists Kerry Anderson, Keighley Allan, Angela Platt and Emma Dermody take referrals seven days a week across two hospital sites.
mesh_terms: D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D006801:Humans; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000628:therapy*; D010343:Patient Admission; D006113:United Kingdom