Our staff
Our professional team assisting you includes some of Australia's leading health and medical professionals in addictive disorders.
The alcohol treatment and rehabilitation programs at the St John of God Hospitals in New South Wales provide the most modern and effective treatments and therapies.
They have been developed by experts in a variety of disciplines and are overseen by Professor John Saunders, one of the country's foremost addiction experts, with experience in this area spanning more than 30 years. He has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) for many years and was responsible for developing the AUDIT questionnaire (the self assessment test for alcohol abuse).
When you start inpatient treatment, you will be under the individual care of a consultant psychiatrist, who leads your team of general practitioners, consultant physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers and drug and alcohol counsellors to provide the treatment and care you require to beat alcohol.
We provide both pharmacological and psychological approaches to alcohol dependence and to help you address underlying mental health problems and vulnerabilities. All patients are encouraged to progress from the inpatient hospital program into our outpatient Aftercare program, which ensures continuity of care on a once-weekly basis when you are back home. Professor Saunders provides group sessions to all inpatients and outpatients to help everyone develop a real understanding of the nature of their disorders and the available treatments.
St John of God Hospital staff work together to provide a multidisciplinary approach to care that offers each patient their very own team of clinicians for the support they require to achieve their particular treatment goals.
