Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Rehabilitation
(asked on 21st March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS spending is allocated to drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
This question was answered on 29th March 2019
In the financial year 2017-18 the estimated total cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing rehabilitation for drug and alcohol addiction is £572,000. The majority of drug and alcohol services fall under the remit of local authorities who are responsible for assessing local need and commissioning services to meet identified needs, including for drug and alcohol dependence, using the ringfenced public health grant.