The Provision of a Residential Substance Use Medically Managed 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 orbenzodiazepines;— 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 aftercare 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.