Guidance: Alcohol, drugs and tobacco: commissioning support pack

This commissioning support pack will help local authorities to develop joint strategic needs assessment and local joint health and wellbeing strategies which effectively address public health issues relating to alcohol, drug and tobacco use.

The pack covers 4 topics, which are:

• planning alcohol harm prevention, treatment and recovery in adults
• planning drugs prevention, treatment and recovery in adults
• planning comprehensive interventions for young people
• planning comprehensive local tobacco control interventions

For each of these topics, there are:

• a set of good practice principles and indicators to help local areas assess need and plan and commission effective services and interventions
• bespoke data for each local area to help them commission effective services and interventions

You can download the support pack documents. These data packs are examples without data. PHE centre teams send bespoke data packs directly to local areas, but copies of these will be available from ndtms.net (login required) from November 2017.

Associated tools and documents

PHE has produced 2 tools to support commissioners in commissioning alcohol and drug services. These are:

• a commissioning tool to help commissioners estimate spend and cost-effectiveness
• a social return on investment tool which estimates benefits from investing in alcohol and drug services

Both tools are available online by logging into ndtms.net. These tools come with supporting guidance.

A new set of estimates for opiate and crack users in England has been published, for the year 2014 to 2015. The national report is available on the Liverpool John Moores University website. There is also an accompanying set of data for each local authority, which is available on the PHE alcohol and drugs legacy site.

Queries should be sent to evidenceapplicationteam@phe.gov.uk.

from Public Health England - Activity on GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alcohol-drugs-and-tobacco-commissioning-support-pack
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