Authors and acknowledgements
Published 21 July 2021
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Authors and acknowledgements
Authors
Owen Bowden-Jones, Luke Mitcheson, Laura Pechey, Steve Taylor and Craig Wright.
Acknowledgements
Members of Public Health England’s (PHE) opioid substitution treatment (OST) good practice programme working group, notably representatives from:
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Lambeth Service User Council
- Build on Belief and Change Grow Live (Raman Nijhawan)
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Turning Point
Background to developing this guide
The OST good practice programme was set up to improve the quality of OST delivery in England. The programme focused on implementing existing clinical guidance through practical and user-friendly tools and resources including:
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the Best practice in Optimising Opioid Substitution Treatment (BOOST) e-learning programme, which includes short films showing typical clinical conversations between people who are on OST and their drug treatment and recovery workers
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a detailed OST service self-assessment tool that helps commissioners and drug treatment service providers assess what they are already doing and what more they could do to deliver OST in line with best practice
Organisations involved in PHE’s OST good practice programme
This guidance was developed by PHE and the OST good practice programme working group, which included representatives from the following organisations:
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Build on Belief
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Change Grow Live
- Collective Voice
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Dorset County Council
- EDP Drug and Alcohol Services
- Essex County Council
- Foundations
- Inclusion Recovery Hampshire
- Lambeth Service User Involvement Council
- Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
- NHS Addictions Providers Alliance
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Turning Point
- We Are With You (formerly Addaction)
Disclaimer
This guide has been developed to assist and support drug treatment and recovery workers in developing good practice. It does not override or replace national and clinical guidelines in any circumstances. Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management (also known as the ‘orange book’) remains the authoritative national guidance on drug treatment.