Nordland Hospital, Bodø Norway

Main Roles in the EMILIA Project

Bodø is work package for dissemination which ensures the effective dissemination and valorisation of project findings on a wide Pan-European basis.

Bodø is also one fo the 8 demonstration sites and also developed 3 of the EMILIA training programs.

Current Status as a demonstration site.

NLSH has also developed the Family Support and Employers & Colleagues training programmes.

Short description of NLSH

Nordland Hospital delivers both general medicial and psychiatric services at local and county level. The hospital is siuated at several different sites within the county of Nordland.

Nordland Hospital's psyhiatric services are organised on a local and county level. The county services include acute admission wards, general psychiatric wards, rehabilitation wards and psychogeriatric services. A total number of beds of xx. Salten Psychiatric Center provides the local hospital services to the Salten district with a population of 72.000 +. These comprise of an acute admission ward, 2 general psychiatric wards, a rehabilition and training ward, 2 outpatient clinics and teams for early intervention, substance abuse and assertive outreach.

Nordland Hospital has a training department which provides both training, courses and conferances for both the hospital's staff and agencies outside the hospital. The hospital trains both psychiatrists and psychologists. In addition student nurses and social workers have their practice placement at the hosital.

Finally the hospital has it's own research department both in medicine and psychiatry.

For more information visit www.nordlandssykehuset.no

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