Funding Data – Substance Misuse and Disorders

Please provide data from 2008 – 2022:

1.Funding spent annually (please state: yearly or financial year) on services that work only with substance misuse or substance use disorders

Please refer to Budgets and expenditure | Devon County Council Information is available on Public Health substance misuse service expenditure back as far as 2014.  Devon County Council does not have details on Public Health expenditure prior to its move to the Local Authority.

2. Funding spent annually (please state: yearly or financial year) on services that offer generic support that may include substance misuse or substance use disorder support

There is no expenditure on generic support that includes substance misuse per se, but there has been generic support that includes an alcohol pathway within the Healthy Lifestyle Service since 2016 (please see answer to question 4)

3. Name of services & projects funded, that work directly with substance misuse or substance use disorders; including

– funding amount, funding period & service provided
– was funding given to a Statutory, Voluntary or Private Sector Organisation.

Integrated substance misuse treatment provider (adults) 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22

Addaction (RISE)

Voluntary Sector

£5,212,007 £5,115,938 £4,996,046 £4,714,395  

EDP (Together)

Voluntary Sector

£4.2m £4.2m £4.2m £4.2m

4. Name of service & projects funded, that work with a range of support needs that may include substance misuse or substance use disorders; including
– funding amount, funding period & service provided
– was funding given to a Statutory, Voluntary or Private Sector Organisation 

Alcohol pathway 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22

Optum

Private sector

161,250 161,250 161,250

EveryoneHealth

Private sector

147,472 147,472 147,472



5. All data from the services & projects mentioned in above Section 3 & 4 (FUNDING).
* Data can be provided in its original submission format. However monthly or quarterly is preferred, along with their data on:

– Equal opportunities & Referral data
* Including: race & ethnicity group, age group, gender group, religion & belief, disability & mental health, sexual orientation, marital status, children.
* And ALL ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED FROM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES OR REFERRAL FORMS

– Triage data
* Including: number of referrals received, gender of referrals, referral source, reason for referral,
* Care & support needs, income & state benefits, education, housing, risk factors
* And ALL ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED FROM THE TRIAGE FORM


– Engagement
* Number of referrals & their gender, how many referrals attended their 1st, 2nd, 3rd appointments & their gender, how many did not attend (DNA) & their gender
* And ALL ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED IN REGARDS TO ENGAGEMENT

– Treatment episodes
* Number of service users referred to the service more than once & their gender.
* And ALL ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED REGARDING NUMBER OF TREATMENT EPISODES

Devon County Council does not have access to the provider’s National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) monthly submission data, and it would take over 18 hours to retrieve and review all 2014-2021 (32 quarters) snapshot data that is provided to commissioners.

There are however Office for Health Improvement and Disparities/NDTMS data sets published for drug and alcohol treatment such as:

Alcohol and drug misuse and treatment statistics – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Local Alcohol Profiles for England – OHID (phe.org.uk)

Public Health Outcomes Framework – Data – OHID (phe.org.uk)