Working Differently

Hayden Duncan

Regional Manager

West Midlands

Context

• Public Health England

• Limited regional capacity

• Further efficiency savings across the sector

• Offers of support to partnerships

• Realisation that treatment will be asked to provide far more than modest crime reduction and health improvement

Recovery

American Society of Addiction Medicine’s definition of recovery as “overcoming both physical and psychological dependence

to a psychoactive drug while making a commitment to sobriety”.

We MUST see Treatment is an episode in the recovery process

RODT Checklist

Dialogue and engagement with authentic recovery providers

Engagement with prescribers re: MARS

Tier 4 provision review to include recovery Housing and Quasi-residential services

Independence of entry to treatment system (LASARS)

Multi-disciplinary reviews for all in treatment

Recovery reviews of current caseload and treatment completion dates for all

Links and coverage of mutual aid groups

Co-production pilots

Contingency management pilots

Expert Patient Programmes

Patient Opinion on-line

Individual recovery care planning for all in treatment

Abstinence services

An inspirational recovery-oriented workforce

Change brings opportunity

• Interactive

• A learning opportunity

• Agenda agreed

• Open invite

• A level of trust established

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