Audit of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities in ... - SA HealthInfo

Monitoring and evaluation• Substance abuse treatment facilities should, as a condition of registration and funding,conduct comprehensive evaluations of their treatment programmes once every fiveyears.• To cover the costs of these evaluations, 10% of all grant monies and public fundingallocated to substance abuse treatment facilities should be ring-fenced for programmeevaluation purposes. This should be a condition of public funding.• Capacity to conduct client monitoring and programme evaluations within substanceabuse treatment facilities needs to be developed. The state should consider providingpublicly funded treatment facilities with introductory courses to client monitoring andprogramme evaluation that include the provision of basic tools to facilitate theseactivities. The World Health Organisation has developed a framework forprogramme evaluation within substance abuse treatment services that may serve as auseful starting point.• Research which evaluates the relative efficacy of treatment programmes that providecomprehensive services (that is, core addiction treatment services and ancillarymental health and medical treatment services) and programmes that provide coreaddiction services only is required. Findings from this research may providejustification for the provision of a more comprehensive range of services at substanceabuse treatment facilities.84