§ John MannTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what protocols there are for GP intervention in the treatment of his or her patient while that patient is under a Drug Treatment and Testing Order. [121059]
§ Caroline FlintThe treatment element of a drug treatment and testing order is commissioned by the Probation Service working with other local joint commissioning stakeholders. No national guidance has been issued on the extent of or timing for the involvement of an offender's GP in the delivery of the agreed treatment programme, which, if appropriate, would need to be considered in the light of the particular circumstances of the agreed programme and the delivery of the National Treatment Agency models of care standards.