The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) has published guidance to help local commissioners and service providers plan for and purchase effective drug treatment services in the Tier 4 – residential treatment – sector.
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This paper examines commissioning processes for drug services in the case of vulnerable young people. In the context of government's modernisation agenda it characterises drug service commissioning as an activity that should occur across professional boundaries in health, social care, local authority and crime agencies.
Drugs education prevention and policy, 2003, 10 (3) p. 251-262
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This NTA document has been developed for service managers and practitioners delivering specialist substance misuse services to young people under the age of 18. It describes a framework for specialist substance misuse assessment, how specialist substance misuse assessment dovetails with the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for children and young people (DfES, 2006a) and outlines the context of undertaking an assessment of young people and care planning arrangements.
(Published February 2007, 28 pages)
Over the last ten years, there has been increasing concern at the rising numbers of preventable drug related deaths. Many drug-related deaths can be prevented by commissioning and providing a baseline of quality services that are evidence-based and responsive to local need. The aim is to provide treatment through integrated care pathways across all four treatment tiers that are as seamless as possible, as indicated in Models of care (NTA 2002). The establishment of effective interfaces between services across all tiers of service provision requires communication and collaboration between services. Central to this are joint commissioning of services, common assessment /referral protocols that are appropriate to each tier and the establishment of robust service level agreements.
(Published February 2007, 12 pages)
Commissioning plays a major role in ensuring that a range of appropriate drug treatment services are available to meet the needs of the local population. The needs of the community for drug treatment must be understood and the system of service put in place to address these needs has to be well planned, coordinated and monitored in order to achieve this task.
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