From various discussions I've had this week, it seems a good idea to recap on the £15M that the Dept of Health has allocated PCTs for alcohol treatment from 2007/08. This is what we've been told:
The recent DH publication Alcohol Misuse Interventions: guidance on developing a local programme of improvement says this about the £15 million:
2.3.1 PCTs have been notified that £15m per annum will be included within the PCTs’ general allocation from 2007/8 onwards to ‘help PCTs to improve their local arrangements for commissioning and delivering alcohol interventions’.
That notification was AWP(06-07)PCT01 on 9 February 2005. Appendix E says:
Alcohol interventions Funding is available from 2007-08 and has been allocated on a weighted capitation basis to all PCTs. Using the national audit of demand for and provision of alcohol services [ANARP] and Models of Care for Alcohol [MOCAM] (available Spring 2005), a programme of improvements for treatment services will be developed.
Additional funding will be invested via PCT budgets to help PCTs to improve their local arrangements for commissioning and delivering alcohol treatment services.
From the end of May 2005, the Department of Health will be piloting models of targeted screening and brief interventions [sbi] in a range of settings, including primary care, Accident & Emergency and the criminal justice setting, to try and identify effective ways of reducing alcohol intake among high risk groups. The evidence from these pilots will be made available to PCTs to help them commission appropriate services.
[MOCAM was published in June 2006; ANARP in November 2005. The sbi pilots are due to start shortly after a long delay.]
Vince Cable asked Caroline Flint about the £15M in Parliament (Hansard, 14th July):
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the allocation of £15,000,000 for tackling alcohol misuse is planned to be repeated in future years.
Caroline Flint: The £15 million allocated to primary care trusts to improve alcohol services is a recurrent revenue allocation for 2007-08 onwards.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the £15,000,000 funding for treatment of alcohol misuse in 2007-08 will be allocated.
Caroline Flint: £15 million has been allocated to all primary care trusts (PCTs) on a weighted capitation basis to improve alcohol services from 2007-08 onwards. The Department announced 2007-08 revenue allocations to PCTs in February 2005.
So, this is an important new funding stream for alcohol treatment, and it's not too early for PCTs to start thinking about how best to spend it.
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