Service Audit and Review Tool
Opioid Substitution Treatment in New Zealand
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Summary
The Ministry of Health is committed to effective service delivery and actively promotes responsiveness and quality improvement. This Opioid Substitution Treatment Audit and Review Tool accompanies the Opioid Substitution Treatment New Zealand Practice Guidelines (Ministry of Health 2003) and allows standardisation in the auditing and review of opioid substitution treatment services in New Zealand. The Audit and Review Tool can be used internally for self-evaluation or peer review purposes either in its entirety or in part.
The key principles of safety, stabilisation, assessment and review, treatment planning, clinical case management and integrated treatment are stressed in the practice guidelines, as are the specialist skills and knowledge needed for opioid substitution treatment. The Audit and Review Tool is designed to evaluate how these principles are applied in service delivery and to offer services an opportunity to assess themselves against the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Sector Standard (NZS 8157:2003) or the National Mental Health Sector Standard (NZS 8143:2001).
The National Addiction Centre of the University of Otago worked in collaboration with Ms Helen Mitchell Shand, representatives of the National Association of Opioid Treatment providers, and tāngata whaiora/consumers to develop this Audit and Review Tool. It has been trialled by a number of services and revised in minor ways since the initial work was carried out. The Ministry of Health acknowledges the efforts made by the sector to contribute to the provision of better, timely and fairer services for people with opioid dependence.
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ISBN 978-0-478-30769-6 (print)
ISBN 978-0-478-30770-2 (online)
HP 4375
Citation: Ministry of Health. 2007. Service Audit and Review Tool: Opioid Substitution Treatment in New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Health.
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