Drug Action Teams

HC Deb 10 May 2004 vol 421 cc157-8W

John Mann

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the key performance indicators are for Drug Action Teams. [171431]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection has included two performance indicators relating to drug action teams (and drug and alcohol action teams) in their performance rating assessment of national health service primary care trusts in England in 2003–04. They are: drug misuse treatment—increase in drug misusers accessing treatment; and drug misuse shared care—percentage of general practitioner practices in a shared care scheme for problematic drug misusers.