Improving services for substance misuse: joint review 2005/2006

The 2005/2006 review assessed the performance of 149 local drug partnerships against national standards. It looked at whether local services prescribe drugs safely and appropriately and how well they plan treatment and coordinate services. These partnerships are responsible for drug treatment services in England and are made up of representatives from NHS mental health and primary care trusts, local authorities, the police, the probation service, and the voluntary sector.

The review focused on two key areas:

• provision of community prescribing services, which provide specialised drug treatment, including planning of care and prescribing of drugs to treat drug misuse
• care planning and care coordination, which refers to the processes that need to be in place to ensure that drug treatment services work together effectively to meet service users' individual needs

Read our joint review: Improving services for substance misuse (pdf 663kb) (opens new window)

Find out more about how we carried out this review (pdf 297kb) (opens new window)

Detailed results

In September 2006, we published the detailed results of our joint review into substance misuse services. These results are broken down by local drug partnerships, NHS mental health trusts and primary care trusts.

Find out more about the results of the review for each local drug partnership (pdf 21kb) (opens new window)

Find out more about the results of the review for each NHS mental health trust (pdf 15kb) (opens new window)

Find out more about the results of the review for each PCT (pdf 26kb) (opens new window)

Access the full detailed results of the review, including underlying data (opens new window)

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