Our Targets

This page is split into two sections: DAAT Targets and DIP Targets

1 - DAAT Targets

The Sheffield Drug and Alcohol Action Team is accountable to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), a specialist health authority set up by the Government in 2001 to oversee the implementation of the Governments ten-year Drug Strategy.

Every year, Sheffield DAAT sets its own targets, which we send to the NTA within our annual Treatment Plan (which are available on this website once the NTA have also published it on their own website). How we perform against these targets is a big influencer in how much budget we are allocated for the following year.

For 2008/9, our main targets have slightly changed. For this year, the targets are based on the activity of two different groups of drug users:

ALL drug users over the age of 18 with ANY substance reported as their main problem substance
ALL drug users over the age of 18 with any opiate (heroin, opium etc) or crack/cocaine reported as their main problem substance. This group of people are know as Problematic Drug Users (or the PDU for short)

Another change is that the emphasis is now on effective treatment. Last years count of numbers in treatment included those discharged under 12 weeks in an unplanned way. The new figure strips out these people, only looking at those who have spent longer than 12 weeks in treatment, or were discharged under 12 in a planned way

Our main targets therefore are found below. Be aware all figures are based on a rolling 12-month period which is backdated 3 months.

The figures cover the period 1st September 2008 to 31st August 2009

	Target (for 2009/10 financial year)	Performance	+/-
Target 1 - Numbers in Effective Treatment (opiates/crack cocaine)	2,691	2,580	-111
Target 2 - Numbers in Effective Treatment (all over 18's)	2,898	2,866	-32
Target 3 - Retention Rate in Treatment (all over 18's)	90%	91%	+1%

Sheffield DAAT also has other targets. Find below the current progress against these other targets, to show Quarter 1 (April-June) and Quarter 2 (July-September) from this financial year (2009/10)

Measure	Target for Sheffield	Q1	Q2	Comments
% of people in Effective Treatment - ALL ADULTS	90%	92%	93%	Someone is classed as being in effective treatment if they are either a) in treatment 12 weeks or more, or b) discharged under 12 weeks but in a planned way
Number of discharges from treatment that are care planned	52%	26.5%	32%
Clients to wait less than 3 weeks for start of treatment	85%	97%	98%
Number of clients with a care plan recorded	90%	96%	94%

2 - DIP Targets

Sheffield DIP have four main targets, which are measured monthly.

Find below details of these targets, what the target is, and perforrmance against these targets for 2009/10.

Month	Target 1: Proportion of adults arrested for a trigger offence to be drug tested	Target 2: Proportion of adults who test positive and have an initial assessment imposed, to attend and remain and the initial required assessment	Target 3: Proportion of adults assessed as needing a further intervention, to have a care plan drawn up and agreed	Target 4: Proportion of adults taken onto the caseload to engage in treatment
TARGET	95%	95%	85%	95%
April 2009	99%	97%	100%	100%
May 2009	98%	95%	100%	100%
June 2009	100%	98%	100%	100%
July 2009	99%	95%	100%	100%
August 2009	98%	96%	100%	100%
September 2009	99%	96%	100%	100%
October 2009	98%	96%	100%	100%

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Last updated 15th January 2010 at 1300 GMT