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The Skills Consortium
work programme
1. Research and evidence
Ian Wardle – work group co-ordinator
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Work group members
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Consortium executive
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Owen Bowden-Jones – RCPsych
Colin Bradbury (for Paul Hayes) – NTA
Jason Gough – SU rep / Patient Opinion
Linda Harris – RCGP
Diana Powell – Barnsley
Marcus Roberts (for Martin Barnes) – DrugScope
Louise Sell – GMW
Kim Wolfe (for Andy Ashenhurst) – AHEAD
Co-options:
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Mike Ashton – Drug and Alcohol Findings
David Marteau – DH Offender Health
Mike McCarron – Scotland
Nicola Singleton - UKDPC
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Research and evidence brief
 We will develop a sector-led consensus and approach to
developing the evidence base and the body of research
to support effective treatment systems, focusing on
emerging thinking about recovery-oriented treatment
systems, practice and communities. We will work with
relevant research bodies, government departments and
clinical institutes to inform their priorities and approach.
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A matrix for considering available evidence and gaps
Organisational level
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A: Intervention
level
Working with drug users
– establishing which
therapeutic techniques,
interpersonal; styles or
worker attributes work
best with whom in what
situations.
Intervention depth
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B: Worker level
How to develop A. For
example, staff selection,
training, supervision,
support , requirements
to develop and improve
practice based on
research and user
feedback.
C: Organisational
level
How to develop A and
B. For example, how to
create and maintain
‘learning organisations’
which seek and
incorporate knowledge
and which foster staff
development in
outcome-promoting
directions.
D: System level
How to foster A B and C
through commissioning
decisions in a local area,
the establishment of
inter-agency practice
sharing and
development networks,
contractual
requirements to
demonstrate evidencebased practice, etc.
Guidance on how to find
the existing evidence
base.
Directly providing access
to the existing evidence
base.
Finding, scoping,
reviewing and making
recommendations based
on the existing evidence
base.
Extending the evidence
base; new research to
plus gaps in knowledge
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