Drug treatment services across England will benefit from £11.8m of extra investment from the Department of Health for service improvements this year, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) announced today (6 August 2009).

About one quarter of the additional extra capital funding for 2009/10, or £2.9m, will be earmarked specifically for expanding the residential treatment sector, and a list of the successful bidders can be found in the notes to editors. Residential providers will also be able to bid for the remaining allocation.  Read the media release.