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Building recovery
Commissioning for recovery
The NTA is leading efforts to focus local drug services in England on maximising help for drug users to achieve and sustain recovery from addiction, and recently launched a guide for local drug action teams to create recovery-orientated drug treatment systems across England.
Commissioning for Recovery is the essential guide for drug action teams in England, which summarises the best of current commissioning practice in the drug treatment field. This publication, part of a core suite of guidance for partnerships on commissioning recovery-oriented services, distils what partnerships should know in order to deliver effective treatment, making clear what they could be doing and how, to be up there with the best.
Recovery Framework
In recent years the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment has expanded enormously.
The framework for drug treatment services first set out in Models of Care in 2002, is now out of date and should be replaced by another that not only better reflects the recovery-oriented system that has developed since, but also the ambitions and aspirations of those who work in it and are served by it.
So, alongside Commissioning for Recovery, the NTA is starting work to refresh the national framework and a draft recovery framework will be sent out for consultation later this year.
Commissioning for Recovery
This document aims to give practical advice on how local commissioners may seek to continually develop effective, evidence-based treatment options with a focus on enabling service users to reintegrate into
society and recover as soon as is practicable.
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