Healthcare professionals and partners

From 1st April 2008, the Department of Health commissioned the NTA (which is now part of Public Health England) to collect and analyse alcohol treatment data on its behalf using the NDTMS. This subset of the NDTMS is known as the National Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NATMS) and forms part of the department’s Alcohol Improvement Programme.

NATMS Annual Statistical report 2009/2010 
The collection of data on structured treatment for alcohol misuse, as recommended in Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MoCAM) (2006), enables national, regional and local-level reporting on alcohol treatment to support the national alcohol strategy. Data reporting aids policy formulation and supports the development of efficient commissioning systems at a local level. Policy is formulated by the Department of Health. (Read the report)

View the 2008/09 report

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In order to support the calculation of the Care Quality Commission substance misuse performance indicators, we maintain a spreadsheet of the mappings between provider mental health trusts and drug agencies. The current mappings can be viewed by clicking on the spreadsheet.

These mappings were determined through a process of ratification that ran from January to May 2008, during which trusts and SHAs could ask for changes to be made. Trusts and SHAs should notify us of any changes as soon as possible by emailing. The resultant mappings are used to produce aggregate trust metrics that the Care Quality Commission use to measure performance against the indicator: Drug users in effective treatment for PCTs and providers of MH services.

Please note: all mappings relating to the Care Quality Commission's 2009/10 assessment in April 2010 have been frozen and we will not accept any further amendments.

While trusts may wish to notify the NDTMS of any errors or changes to the mappings on the spreadsheet, formal notification of these changes may still be required should the CQC choose to repeat the formal ratification process in 2010. Changes that we are notified of now will however be included in the monthly MHT figures that are released on www.ndtms.net.

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Guidance on obtaining the correct client consent for the NDTMS is available here. This consent document may be amended by regional NDTMS teams and DAT wide data sharing agreements to include additional consents (e.g. local clinical record sharing), but should at a minimum include the information contained in this guidance. For further information, treatment providers should contact the NDTMS regional teams.

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This system is aimed at treatment providers who, for whatever reason, do not have a clinical management system that is capable of producing NDTMS data. Typically, they will hitherto have been using spreadsheets to maintain their data – which has led to considerable problems regarding data quality. This new system should resolve these quality issues and also serve to encourage a general uplift in the design and implementation of systems in use by treatment providers. Please contact your regional NDTMS team for further details and access to the application.

• NDTMS - Conditions of Use
• NDTMS - Conditions of Use Acceptance Sheet
• NDTMS - Minimum Environment Criteria
• NDTMS - Data Entry Tool Region User Guide
• NDTMS - Data Entry Tool Agency User Guide
• DET - TOP reporting technical notes
• DET - Verification rules

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This system provides the treatment provider with:

- A facility to check their data before formally submitting it to NDTMS
- A secure mechanism to transfer their data to NDTMS
- Access to reports

• NDTMS - Conditions of Use
• NDTMS - Conditions of Use Acceptance Sheet
• NDTMS - Minimum Environment Criteria
• NDTMS - DAMS - Regional User Guide (UPDATED)
• NDTMS - DAMS - Agency User Guide (UPDATED)
• NDTMS - DAMS Phase III Guidance (NEW)
• NDTMS - Verification Rules

Please contact your regional NDTMS team for further details and access to the application.

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Support for treatment providers is provided by a network of regional NDTMS teams.

To facilitate the submission of agency data to the NDTMS, we have developed a number of applications to support the provision of data to the NDTMS regional teams

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