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8. Service Integration, Recording and Information Sharing
RECOMMENDATION 9
Priority must be given to greater development of the Single Shared Assessment ( SSA11) as highlighted by the EIU in ' Integrated Care for Drug Users, Principles and Practice'; improving and standardising clinical note taking; and developing effective methods for dealing with clients' case files across Scotland. To support these efforts, it is essential that robust systems for sharing of information between local generic, specific and voluntary services are developed as a matter of urgency. |
The Executive supports this recommendation.
There is considerable local activity addressing development of SSAs but there is a long way to go in many ADAT areas. Whilst much work is underway it is hoped that the current drug scoping exercise across the Executive, in preparation for a more specific review of ADATs, will greatly assist integration of ADAT activity with Joint Future, SSAs and Integrated Care. Most ADATs have practical experience of acquiring client consent for the exchange of personal information, which is a basis on which to develop further drug-related death preventative work.
TAKING ACTION
- The Scottish Drugs Misuse Database is being expanded to provide information on numbers in treatment, the length of time they remain in treatment, and on outcomes and changes in behaviour. It will follow clients within services through their individual treatment pathway. Data collection for the expanded system will begin in 2006.
- Prevalence intervention developed by the ADATs covered by NHS Grampian 12 will be used as a model of good practice across Scotland. The DAT Association will ascertain how other ADATs take this up or approach it differently.
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