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6. Developing Existing Approaches
RECOMMENDATION 6
The Scottish Executive should require ADATs and their partners to demonstrate that services are delivered in an effective and co-ordinated way with the aim of delivering clear evidence based outcomes, including improved engagement with drug users, reduction in waiting times and improvements in retention rates with services. |
The Executive supports this recommendation.
New treatment resources provided by the Executive and others, such as the Big Lottery and Lloyds TSB Partnership Drugs Initiatives ( PDI), are used by ADATs to increase capacity of existing services and to reduce waiting times. In some rural areas mobile provision is available through the use of vans, e.g. Perth and Kinross, West Lothian and East Dunbartonshire. In Edinburgh 160 staff have been given training about understanding and responding to the needs of people using crack cocaine.
TAKING ACTION
- 'Performance Contracts' between ADATs and the Executive are signed agreements detailing the impact that additional resources will be expected to have on the three key priorities of improvements in numbers into treatment, waiting times and the range of services available locally. Initial Performance Contracts, for the period 2005-06 to 2006-07, cover additional allocations announced in July 2005 but will later cover all drug treatment specific funding from the Executive.
- ADATs are considering ways that services can be made available outside normal working hours. One example is the Glasgow Drug Crisis Centre, which is open 24 seven. Some pharmacies are also open in the evenings for methadone and needle exchange services.
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