Health Improvement - Drug & Alcohol Team
Latest PublicationsPublished: 30 April 2013
The National Drug Related Deaths Database (Scotland) report 2011
Published: 26 March 2013
Scottish Drug Misuse Database - overview of new individuals assessed
Published: 26 March 2013
National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times
|
[61kb]
The Health Improvement Drug & Alcohol Team at ISD strives to provide policy makers and practitioners with timely, robust and clear information and intelligence about alcohol and drug misuse and their consequences. The Drug & Alcohol team is, since the restructuring in 2012, part of the Health Improvement service area, which also includes Public Health (ScotPHO), Mental Health, Smoking Cessation and Dental & Opthalmics.
Team role
Both drug and alcohol misuse are major public health problems in Scotland today. The Health Improvement Drug & Alcohol Team at ISD provides information at national and local level to support the monitoring of national strategies and for planning and delivery of treatment services. Particular activities include:
- producing quality assured national statistics on alcohol and drug misuse
- contributions to policy and practice development, and measurement of performance at national and local levels
- identify and address information gaps through key developmental projects
- project manage key national studies as required by the Scottish Government
Information sources the team draws on include:
- the Scottish Drug Misuse Database,
- hospital discharges (acute, psychiatric and maternity),
- information from various population surveys,
- National drug-related deaths database.
New developments
Consultation on new Drug & Alcohol Information System (DAISy)
ISD have been commissioned by the Scottish Government Drug and Alcohol Policy Units to develop a single integrated information system to collect drug and alcohol treatment and outcomes information. Once implemented, this new system will incorporate the functions of the existing Scottish Drugs Misuse Database (SDMD) and Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database (DATWTD) and gather information on alcohol treatment outcomes while also seeking to ensure a greater recovery focus and rationalise the amount of information to be collected. To assist with the successful delivery of this project it is essential to obtain the views of our key stakeholders. A number of areas have been identified where your input would be greatly appreciated in order that we can best develop and plan the service that ISD delivers on gathering alcohol and drug treatment and outcomes information. The consultation document can be downloaded
[500kb].
We would be grateful if you could cascade this consultation widely to appropriate colleagues and send your comments to: mailto:nss.isd-datwt@nhs.net
If possible please return all comments by Friday July 12th 2013. Please contact us if you have any issues adhering to this response timescale.
Move of information from Drug Misuse Information Scotland and Alcohol Information Scotland web sites to ScotPHO - the two websites www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org and www.alcoholinformation.isdscotland.org will be decommissioned in the summer of 2013 and all relevant information will be shifted to the ScotPHO Alcohol and Drug web pages.
How to find out more about substance misuse
For further information please contact us at nss.isdsubstancemisuse@nhs.net or view team contact details at www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Contact
