Focus on: Public health and prevention

"This QualityWatch report provides an overview of public health outcomes in recent years, examining  trends in 20 indicators across sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV, substance misuse, smoking, childhood obesity and immunisations."

QualityWatch: Focus on: Public health and prevention: Has the quality of services changed over recent years?
A Davies, E Keeble, T Bhatia, E Fisher
The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
April 2016

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Development of a framework to estimate the cost of opioid dependence

"This report sets out the findings of a targeted review of the harms of opioid dependence, and an assessment of the existing estimates of the costs of opioid dependence."

Development of a framework to estimate the cost of opioid dependence
E Disley, A Mulcahy, M Pardal, J Rubin, K Ruggeri
RAND Europe, prepared for Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals
November 2013

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Making recovery a reality in your community

"Building recovery in your local community should be a focus for local strategies both because it is the right thing to do and because it is smart and cost effective commissioning."

Making recovery a reality in your community: a briefing for commissioners of mental health, drug and alcohol services
Alcohol Concern, DrugScope, Centre for Mental Health
August 2013

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Primary care drug and alcohol treatment: commissioning and provision against a backdrop of localism

"This joint paper considers the future impact of the changing commissioning environment on primary care drug and alcohol treatment."

Primary care drug and alcohol treatment: commissioning and provision against a backdrop of localism
L Harris, K Halliday
Royal College of General Practitioners
January 2013

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