Harm Reduction
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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Whatever Happened to Harm Reduction?
Monday/28/Apr 2008 Filed in:
Drug Treatment
- Harm Reduction
The Department of Health Reducing Drug Related Harm Action Plan is coming up to its first birthday in a couple of weeks.
How much have we achieved since
its publication and what can that tell us about the state of harm
reduction in the UK?