May 2008
Inspecting the field - Harm Reduction and Commissioning Systems
Monday/12/May 2008 Filed in:
Drug Treatment
- Local
Partnerships and Administration
Last week the Healthcare
Commission and the NTA published their penultimate improvement
review looking at the separate themes of Harm Reduction Services
and Commissioning Systems.
Scoring local areas from "weak" to "excellent" the review gives us some interesting information about the maturity of our commissioning systems and the effectiveness of harm reduction implementation and planning, but does the inspection report raise more questions than it answers?
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Alas Smith and Brown
Wednesday/07/May 2008
The lunacy that has been
demonstrated this morning with regard to the classification of
cannabis has clearly come about as a result of a real change in
what we now view as the purpose of drug strategy in the
UK.
Whereas once - back at the time of the 1995, 1998 and even 2002 drug strategies - the aim of strategy was clearly to pragmatically tackle the harms related to drug use, it is now the clear intention of this government, led in this respect by Jacqui Smith and Gordon Brown, to turn the clock back to a time when all you had to do was say "No Sir-ee", make sure you locked the bad guys up and everything would be fine and dandy.
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