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Purchasing effective treatment and care for drug misusers
 — guidance on commissioning better services for people with drug related problems [guidance for health authorities and social services departments]
Corporate AuthorDepartment of Health - DoH
PublisherDoH, London, 1997
Pages89 pp
SourceNHS Executive Responseline: 0541 555 455
KeywordsDrug taking ; Therapeutics ; Services ; Health Authorities and Trusts ; Social Services Departments ; Finance [care] ; Standards of provision.
AnnotationThis guidance on commissioning better services for drug misusers is aimed mainly at Health Authority Chief Executives and Directors of Social Services. It covers: assessing needs and developing a strategy; identifying resources; appropriate contracting; opportunities for improving contact with other services; effective interventions (methadone programmes, residential rehabilitation services, and counselling); meeting individual needs; and management skills and provision of training. It also provides information about the purchasing implications of the report of the Task Force to Review Services for Drug Misusers, which reviewed evidence on the effectiveness of drug misuse treatments.
Accession NumberCPA-970410203 B
ClassmarkETD: LL: I: L4A: PF: QC: 583

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