The provision of a Medically managed Substance Misuse Residential Detoxification service.

Descriptions

The purpose of the residential medically managed detoxification service is to provide a safe, evidence based, effective detoxification and stabilisation programme to aid the recovery and reintegration of substance misusers with complex needs.Within Sefton Integrated Substance Misuse Treatment Service, the first-line detoxification offer is community detoxification within the adult treatment service. Where increased risk is indicated, residential in-patient detoxification may be the safest and most effective treatment plan. Medical input and supervision can be provided by a community GP overseeing the detoxification plan.However, medically managed inpatient detoxification is an important treatment option for service users who:— Have not benefited from previous formal community-based and/or medically supervised inpatient detoxification.— Need 24 hour specialist substance misuse medical and/or nursing care because of significant co-morbid physical or mental health problems.— Require complex polydrug detoxification, for example concurrent detoxification from alcohol or benzodiazepines.— Are experiencing significant vulnerabilities or social problems that will limit the benefit of community-based detoxification.— Have complex needs that require admission for medical stabilisation.The particular aims of the service are:— To provide a safe period of medically managed and monitored (by exception) withdrawal and detoxification, with 24 hour medical supervision.— To encourage, educate, motivate and enable realistic lifestyle changes.— To ensure that treatment gains are maintained by developing robust links with after-care support available within the community, including mental health services.— To address the safeguarding and welfare needs of vulnerable adult service users or the children of substance misusing parents, ensuring that needs are identified and planned for prior to a person's discharge from inpatient care.— To ensure that the principles of harm minimisation underpin the delivery of all interventions in order to reduce the harm caused by drugs and alcohol on individuals, thereby contributing to a reduction in drug and alcohol related deaths and the transmission of blood borne viruses.This procurement is being undertaken in accordance with section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, also know as the ‘Light Touch’ regime under the EU Procurement Directives.