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Measure for Measure: What’s the best way of validating drug recovery outcomes?
Not everything that counts can be counted… The first challenge of payment by results schemes is to set the right outcomes. The second is to set the right method of measuring those outcomes. Sometimes...
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Payment by results – the devil really is in the detail
PbR is simple in theory… Payment by results is quite a straightforward concept. Its chief attraction lies in its ability to incentivise providers to deliver exactly what a commissioner wants. For...
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Drug treatment helps recovery but is not enough on its own
Does drug treatment work? Measuring drug recovery is problematic, to say the least. Recovery from drug dependence is, like desistance from crime, rarely a linear process and typically includes lapse...
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What does recovery mean and how do we measure it?
Measuring addiction recovery An interesting article from a bunch of heavyweights in the drug misuse world, including Emily Finch, John Marsden and John Strang, was published in early 2016 in the...
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Getting the right outcomes for payment by results
Outcomes not outputs This is the eighth post in a blog series looking at the lessons I’ve learned from a recent review of the payment by results literature. Perhaps the most common reason to commission...
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Measuring the impact of arts and mentoring interventions with offenders
Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service has just (22 March 2019) published a useful Toolkit to measure intermediate outcomes to reduce reoffending from arts and mentoring interventions. Authored...
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