Substance Misuse Management in General Practice
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Project Aims
SMMGP aims are as follows...
- To promote the provision of effective care for drug users.
- To develop, support and encourage the role of general practitioners (GPs) and other primary care workers to work with problem drug users.
- To do this through personal face to face and telephone contact with GPs and those who work with GPs as well as through the media of information technology and written materials.
- To support and encourage the training of GPs and other primary care workers to work with problem drug users.
- To facilitate collaboration between users and all aspects of treatment services (e.g. primary care, secondary care and other specialist drug treatment agencies).
- To facilitate the representation of the needs and experiences of primary care in local and national fora concerned with problem drug use.
- To support the development of the evidence base for effective care for drug users in the primary care setting.
- To support the commissioning of substance misuse services by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).
- To develop close relationships and work in partnership with all appropriate organisations such as the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the Department of Health (DOH), the National Treatment Agency (NTA), and others.
