Delighted to see new guidance out delivering on the commitment to avoid prison releases on a Friday or before a bank holiday. This will be vital to continuity of care planning for prison leavers needing access to life saving services
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Local authorities across England will receive a share of £267 million to improve drug and alcohol treatment services.

This will allow them to:
🔵 prevent deaths
🔵 recruit more specialist staff
🔵 support more prison leavers
🔵 help reduce crime

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Directors of Public Health & their teams work together with a range of amazing organisations & people to deliver effective, life changing drug & alcohol treatment services.

The extra funding announced today is very welcome & will enable us to support more people in this way.

just published the extra drug and alcohol treatment funding allocations for 2024 to 2025 gov.uk/government/pub…

ICYMI Office for Health Improvement and Disparities published our guidance lived experience initiatives and recovery support services to help people start and sustain recovery from problem drug and alcohol usehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovery-support-services-and-lived-experience-initiatives

Pleased that our NIHR-PRP funded AMOUNT project will be contributing to development of new policy on YP's drug use. Depending on commissioner sign-off, we're also hoping to convene a webinar in Autumn to discuss our findings

The first annual report assessing progress in delivery of the drug strategy has been published.
I know how hard everyone has been working to get things started over the last year, so it's good to take a moment and reflect on what has been achieved gov.uk/government/pub…

Free tip - I’ll waive my usual premium consultancy fee (!) - don’t buy these, you’re wasting your money.

Yesterday Office for Health Improvement and Disparities & HMPPS published a self-assessment toolkit for partnerships who are delivering the pathway from drug and alcohol treatment in prison to community provision.

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English Substance Use Commissioners Group LGA Wellbeing Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)

There are some clear pointers in this evaluation about how we can increase support for parents in need of treatment, and for their children - great work by Tavistock Institute in bringing it together in such a helpful way.

Helping kids and families living with alcohol-dependent parents via ⁦Department of Health and Social Care⁩ gov.uk/government/new…

I was fortunate enough to be involved in managing this programme for a few years. It was a real pleasure to work with all the areas involved who all showed real commitment to improving the lives of children of alcohol dependent parents.
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We’ve updated the Spotlight data tool, which collates information about the public health outcomes of inclusion health groups. This update includes statistics on a range of maternity and secondary care indicators. You can view the Spotlight tool at analytics.phe.gov.uk/apps/spotlight/

This is a really interesting and challenging insight into how DRRs and ATRs are working at the moment.
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In case you missed it last week here's UK Health Security Agency's annual report - Shooting Up: infections and other injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs in the UK, data to end of 2021
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New from Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - this year's annual report on drug and alcohol treatment in secure settings.
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Very pleased to see this announcement from @WDP_Charity and The Nelson Trust about their intent to launch new women-only detox
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🆕 Five projects will receive the first allocation of the £5 million Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Innovation Fund, helping them to research ways to prevent drug misuse.

These include:
🔵 Change Grow Live
🔵 University of Huddersfield
🔵 DSM Foundation
🔵 The University of Manchester
🔵 Dorset Council UK

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