Healthcare professionals and partners

The NTA collect a lot of information about users in the system but we would like to know more about the outcomes of treatment. 

The extra information now being collected through the Treatment Outcomes Profile will give a rounded picture of the impact of treatment and other care, for the first time.

Since 2001, there has been an expansion in drug treatment services in England to help protect communities as well as individual drug users and their families from the harm problem drug use causes.

In 2009 system change pilots were launched, to test new approaches to drug treatment and the broader social support needs of drug users, both in the community and in prisons, including the ongoing care of drug-using offenders leaving prison. 

The Drug Strategy 2010, sets out an ambition to explore how to use Payment by Results to incentivise providers to improve delivery of drug and alcohol recovery outcomes. Following a two-stage selection process, eight local partnerships were chosen in April 2011 to pilot a Drug and Alcohol Recovery PbR scheme. Commencing in the autumn, they will test innovative new ways to help people dependent on drugs and/or alcohol achieve a sustained recovery.