Release of Final Results and the National Report
The Healthcare Commission and NTA have now published the national report and the final results of the 2006/7 joint service review of commissioning and harm reduction.
The report summarises the review findings at a national level, draws conclusions and makes recommendations for improving services.
Download the full report.
The key messages from the report are available here.
The 2006/07 review assessed the quality of:
- harm reduction services – to reduce the transmission of blood borne viruses and drug-related deaths
- commissioning or systems management – to ensure that services meet the needs of their population and are performance managed to deliver the best possible treatment to service users.
All of the drug action teams and PCTs reviewed received their individual results in November 2007, following the data collection process. The full results are now available here:
Individual local drug partnership scores.
Partnership overall scores ranked.
Partnership commissioning scores ranked.
Partnership harm reduction scores ranked.
PCT overall scores.
Detailed partnership scores to question and criteria level.
Further information can also be found on the Healthcare Commission website.
Good practice briefings, on why local drug partnerships who achieved high scores in relation to commissioning and harm reduction perform well in these areas, will be available here when they are published in the near future.
The following are other key documents relating to the service review:
2006/07 Assessment Framework
2006/07 Assessment Framework – Management Summary
2006/07 Substance Misuse Service Review Guide
2006/07 Scoring Construction Guide
Questionnaire for Joint commissioning managers
Questionnaire for Pharmacy needle and syringe exchange scheme Coordinators
Questionnaire for Non-pharmacy fixed site needle and syringe exchanges
Questionnaire for Specialist community prescribing services.
