DS Daily - 14th July 2011 |
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Payment by results
Views sought on outcome definitions for ‘payment by results’ drug and alcohol recovery pilots. Detailed comments should be emailed by 3 August to: pbrfordrugsrecovery@dh.gsi.gov.uk | Department of Health, UK
Piloting Payment by Results for Drugs Recovery - draft outcome definitions
A Co-design Group - consisting of representatives from local partnerships in the pilot sites and central cross government departments and experts from the field – has been developing proposals to measure these outcomes and set eligibility criteria | Department of Health, UK
Helping develop the volunteer workforce
In the current stage of the project Adfam is working on a Volunteering Toolkit | Drug Sector Partnership, UK
Invitation to apply for the position of Chair to the Drug Use Disorders Topic Expert Group
Closing date for applications: Monday 1 August, at 12.00pm | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK
Viral hepatitis in Scotland - treatment and prevention challenges
This conference was a unique networking opportunity aiming to bring together leading clinical experts and the entire hepatitis voluntary sector in Scotland to explore the potential for future work. PDF versions of presentations | Hepatitis Scotland, UK
Wobbly Stan the Benzo Man
An awareness campaign on the illicit use of benzodiazepines will be launched today at the Regent Cinema in Redcar. The campaign features a short animated film entitled ‘Wobbly Stan’. Produced by | Lifeline Publications for Redcar and Cleveland Adult Drug & Alcohol JCT, UK
New crime of squatting proposed
A new crime of squatting has been proposed by Justice Minister Crispin Blunt as part of a range of proposals designed to protect both home and business property owners from the problem | Justice.gov, UK
Criminalising squatters could make more people homeless, says report
Impact assessment admits law may hit vulnerable people, and says councils must find other accommodation | Guardian, UK
Welfare Reform Bill - Lords 2nd Reading briefing
The National Housing Federation remains concerned about the plans to cuts housing benefit in the social sector, to set a cap on cap household benefits, to remove tenants' choice to have their housing benefit paid directly to their landlord, and to abolish aspects of the discretionary Social Fund. Our position is set out in our briefing for peers | National Housing Federation, UK
Addiction as Disease, Addiction as Metaphor
How behavioural addictions fit into the future picture will depend upon what science tells us. It will not hinge upon what cognitive therapy reveals. That’s my bet, anyway - Dirk Hanson | Binge Inking, UK
Whole of Government Accounts
The Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) is a consolidated set of financial statements for the UK public sector | HM Treasury, UK
Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2011
PESA brings together recent outturn data, estimates for the latest year plus spending plans for the rest of the current spending review period | HM Treasury, UK
Public Expenditure 2009 – 10
Provisional Outturn | HM Treasury, UK
Care Quality Commission second annual report
Our report on our second year as the regulator of England’s health and adult social care services has been laid before Parliament. PDF | Care Quality Commission, UK
Ban on smoking in cars carrying children could be introduced in Wales
Wales could be the first European country to ban smoking in vehicles carrying children, First Minister Carwyn Jones announced on Wednesday | Welsh Assembly Government, UK
Publication of Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11
The Annual Report, the fifth to be published by | SOCA, UK
Drug addicts forced to leave Ireland for recovery in Britain
The Midland Regional Drugs Task Force Substance Misuse Strategy heard that the big problem facing addicts was access to treatment centres. Addicts were hoping to travel to Britain to avail of Subsutex treatment as opposed to Methadone, which is harder to detox from | Irish Post
Alcohol a factor in poisoning deaths
More than one-third of people who died of alcohol-related liver disease were below 34 years of age, new figures reveal | Irish Examiner
Alcohol abuse - Time to recognise social cost
The findings of a report on trends of alcohol-related deaths in Ireland for the years 2004 to 2008, published yesterday by the Health Research Board, throws much needed light on what remains a serious issue in Irish society | Irish Examiner
White House criticizes D.C. spending bill for abortion, needle-exchange provisions
The White House criticized the House spending bill for the District on Wednesday, ahead of floor consideration of the measure that could begin as early as this week | Washington Post, USA
National Minimum Data Set - specifications and collection manual
Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set 2011-12: specifications and collection manual | AIHW, Australia
Regional Seminar on Drugs and HIV/AIDS Responses
Following four days of deliberations a regional meeting on "Drugs and HIV/AIDS Responses", organized by the Government of Viet Nam and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), adopted a set of recommendations to expand training programmes for policy makers, law enforcement, the judiciary, drug control agencies and prison staff | UNODC