Qualifications
- PGDip (St George's, University of London)
- MSc (St George's, University of London)
- PhD / DPhil (King's College London)
Summary
Professor Phillips, who qualified as a registered mental nurse in 1991, has collaborated on a number of epidemiological studies and randomised controlled trials related to alcohol screening and brief interventions in emergency departments, primary care and criminal justice settings over the last 20 years.
Awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship, he obtained a Doctorate in Addiction Science at King's College London, undertaking the epidemiological analysis of alcohol use disorders within emergency departments. (https://www.dev.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/CDRF%202009-81) Professor Phillips has expanded this research to examine the impact of length of stay (LOS) on alcohol withdrawal hospital readmissions and self-discharges among emergency admissions to acute hospital admissions. He was Chief Investigator on the FASTer Access to Alcohol Treatment Study exploring the utility of short alcohol screening tests to identify alcohol use disorders within emergency departments.
Professor Phillips is currently Joint Chief Investigator along with Professor Julia Sinclair, University of Southampton, on the NHIR HS&DR funded Programme of Research for Alcohol Care Teams: Impact, Value and Effectiveness (ProACTIVE) project (https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR152084). The ProACTIVE research programme is a multi-disciplinary, integrated, mixed-methods study designed to evaluate the impact of ACTs at the policy, health system and patient level. It will identify the 'optimal' models of ACT, define the components which best support the identification, and cost-effective management of hospitalised adults with alcohol dependence. He is also leading a collaborative multi-method service evaluation of alcohol assertive outreach in Hull (COACH study) funded by NIHR Mental Health Innovation Network which involves clinical and academic partners from across the Yorkshire and The Humber region.
Professor Phillips supervises several PhD students investigating the care and management of alcohol withdrawal, alcohol-related liver disease and alcohol dependence within acute hospitals and specialist community alcohol teams. He also represents the NIHR Yorkshire and The Humber Clinical Research Network as Specialty Lead for Mental Health and practices clinically within the Alcohol Care Team, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is a member of the UK Alcohol Clinical Guidelines Expert Group; NICE Quality Standards Committee on Alcohol Use Disorders, a member of the Alcohol Care Team National Working Group and holds a visiting appointment at the National Addiction Centre, King's College London.
Outputs available https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/person/713284/thomas-phillips/outputs
Journal Article
Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease: consensus recommendations from the British Association for the Study of the Liver and British Society of Gastroenterology ARLD special interest group
Parker, R., Allison, M., Anderson, S., Aspinall, R., Bardell, S., Bains, V., Buchanan, R., Corless, L., Davidson, I., Dundas, P., Fernandez, J., Forrest, E., Forster, E., Freshwater, D., Gailer, R., Goldin, R., Hebditch, V., Hood, S., Jones, A., Lavers, V., …Masson, S. (2023). Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease: consensus recommendations from the British Association for the Study of the Liver and British Society of Gastroenterology ARLD special interest group. BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 10(1), Article e001221. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2023-001221
Adjunctive Medication Management and Contingency Management to enhance adherence to acamprosate for alcohol dependence: the ADAM trial RCT
Donoghue, K., Boniface, S., Brobbin, E., Byford, S., Coleman, R., Coulton, S., Day, E., Dhital, R., Farid, A., Hermann, L., Jordan, A., Kimergård, A., Koutsou, M. L., Lingford-Hughes, A., Marsden, J., Neale, J., O’Neill, A., Phillips, T., Shearer, J., Sinclair, J., …Drummond, C. (2023). Adjunctive Medication Management and Contingency Management to enhance adherence to acamprosate for alcohol dependence: the ADAM trial RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 27(22), 1-88. https://doi.org/10.3310/DQKL6124
Telemedicine in addictions: Feasibility randomised controlled trial
Mayet, S., Gledhill, A., McCaw, I., Hashmani, Z., Drozdova, Z., Arshad, S., Shahbaz, S., Huang, C., & Phillips, T. (2023). Telemedicine in addictions: Feasibility randomised controlled trial. Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, 25(3), 27-36
Erratum: Correction to: Service Users' Views and Experiences of Alcohol Relapse Prevention Treatment and Adherence: New Role for Pharmacists? (Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) (2022) 57 5 (602-608))
Dhital, R., Coleman, R., Day, E., Drummond, C., Lingford-Hughes, A., Marsden, J., Phillips, T., Sinclair, J., Strang, J., Weinman, J., Whittlesea, C., Widyaratna, K., & Donoghue, K. (2022). Erratum: Correction to: Service Users' Views and Experiences of Alcohol Relapse Prevention Treatment and Adherence: New Role for Pharmacists? (Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) (2022) 57 5 (602-608)). Alcohol and Alcoholism, 57(5), 642. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agac016
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of face-to-face and electronic brief interventions versus screening alone to reduce alcohol consumption among high-risk adolescents presenting to emergency departments: three-arm pragmatic randomized trial (SIPS Junior high risk trial)
Deluca, P., Coulton, S., Alam, M. F., Boniface, S., Donoghue, K., Gilvarry, E., Kaner, E., Lynch, E., Maconochie, I., McArdle, P., McGovern, R., Newbury‐Birch, D., Patton, R., Pellat‐Higgins, T., Phillips, C., Phillips, T., Pockett, R. D., Russell, I. T., Strang, J., & Drummond, C. (2022). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of face-to-face and electronic brief interventions versus screening alone to reduce alcohol consumption among high-risk adolescents presenting to emergency departments: three-arm pragmatic randomized trial (SIPS Junior high risk trial). Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15884
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Programme of Research for Alcohol Care Teams: Impact, Value and Effectiveness (ProACTIVE -2)
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£778,103.00
Started
1 October 2022
Status
Ongoing
Project
A collaborative multi-method service evaluation of alcohol assertive outreach in Hull (CoACH)
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£145,600.00
Started
1 January 2023
Status
Ongoing
Project
Digital intervention for cocaine using virtual reality to deliver cue exposure treatment
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£23,038.00
Started
1 May 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
NIHR Mental Health Research Group
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£8,288,666.00
Started
1 October 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
ALCOHOL CARE TEAM COMPETENCIES (ACTC) PROJECT:
Funder
NHS England
Grant
£12,564.00
Started
1 July 2019
Status
Complete
Project
Examining the measurement and management of unplanned alcohol withdrawal admissions to acute hospitals
Funder
The Society for the Study of Addiction
Grant
£69,929.00
Started
1 September 2020
Status
Complete
Project
Alcohol Dependence Care Pathways
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£45,152.00
Started
1 September 2020
Status
Complete
Project
ADAM: The effectiveness of adjunctive Medication Management and Contingency Management to enhance adherence to medications for relapse prevention in alcohol dependence
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£2,612.00
Started
5 March 2018
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellowship - Laura Hermann
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£106,734.00
Started
1 September 2021
Status
Complete
Project
The North of England Alcohol Team (NEAT)
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£0.00
Started
1 January 2023
Status
Complete
Postgraduate supervision
CURRENT PhD and Postgraduate Students
Buse Apel
Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence
University of Hull Scholarship
Supervisors: Prof Thomas Phillips, Dr Judith Cohen, and Prof Grant Abt
(Commenced: Sept 2019)
Nurun Tania
An examination of current pathways for patients receiving unplanned care for alcohol related liver disease (ARLD): A mixed methods approach to identify targets for improvement.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust & University of Hull Doctoral Scholarship
Supervisors: Prof Thomas Phillips, ICAHR, Dr Maureen Twiddy, HHTU, and Dr Lynsey Corless, HUTH
(Commenced: Jan 2020 P/T)
Rachel Coleman
Exploring the measurement and management of alcohol withdrawal in the acute general hospital setting.
Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) PhD Studentship
https://www.addiction-ssa.org/author/rachel-coleman/
Supervisors: Prof Thomas Phillips and Prof Simon Coulton (University of Kent)
(Commencing: Sept 2020)
Bethany Cragg
Exploring Individuals’ Experiences of Hospital Readmissions for Alcohol Withdrawal’
Clinical Psychology Doctorate (ClinPsyD)
Supervisors: Dr Nick Hutchinson and Prof Thomas Phillips
COMPLETED PhD and Postgraduate Students
Saphsa Codling
Elucidating the relationships between physical activity and risk of alcohol-related harm/consumption using social determinants of health in early to mid-adolescence.
University of Hull Scholarship
Supervisors: Prof Lesley Smith, Prof Thomas Phillips, Prof Colin Martin, and Dr Chao Huang
(Commenced: Sept 2019)
Laura Hermann
NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Supervisors: Dr Maureen Twiddy, Prof Thomas Phillips and Dr Chao Huang
(Commenced: Sept 2021)
Emma Robinson
What helps and hinders access to alcohol treatment? Perspectives from people experiencing homelessness and alcohol dependence and homeless outreach keyworkers.
Clinical Psychology Doctorate (ClinPsyD)
Supervisors: Dr Nick Hutchinson and Prof Thomas Phillips