Programme Delivery

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) and NHS England will work closely to engage with a wide range of services and stakeholders to develop the overall transformation programme. The programme will focus on the following organisation types:

• Local authority drug and alcohol commissioning teams.
• Local authority commissioned adult and young people’s community drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services, residential rehabilitation, and inpatient detoxification services, including NHS and third sector providers.
• Lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs).
• Services jointly delivered between NHS and LA to improve care for people with co-occurring mental health needs and drug and alcohol treatment needs. 

The programme will also ensure that its outputs, such as the new workforce strategy, reference and align with NHS workforce strategic planning for other key service types such as NHS-commissioned substance misuse teams in secure settings, mental health services and alcohol care teams (ACTs), and locally services are encouraged to plan in partnership with NHS services. This will ensure better integration of services/roles within Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).

Collaboration is encouraged between NHS and LAs to deliver improved care for people with co-occurring mental health needs and drug and alcohol treatment needs.

LAs and NHS partners should collaborate as part of new ICS structures to jointly plan this expansion of workforce and transformation of services. Services will need to work closely together to plan transformation of services for people with co-occurring needs. This investment should ensure that provision is made to support people with their drug and alcohol treatment needs, alongside their mental health needs, rather than expecting people to attend different services with no alignment or integration.