Access, Choice, Support: Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards updates
This page will be updated until March 2025, when the programme is due to come to an end.
MAT Standards implementation brief insights (July 2023)
The Improvement Support for MAT Standards Implementation programme engaged with services across Scotland to develop a series of brief insights on innovations in local service delivery. There are 21 brief insights detailing local experiences of implementation. These insights have also supported the National Benchmarking Report on Implementation of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards 2022-23.
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- Brief insight 1: Angus Integrated Drug & Alcohol Recovery Service (AIDARS): Same day access to Opiate Substitute Therapy (OST)
- Brief insight 2: Argyll & Bute Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Recovery Advocacy Services
- Brief insight 3: NHS Dumfries & Galloway: Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine Service Development
- Brief insight 4: Dundee Drug & Alcohol Recovery Service (DDARS): Improving Access to Services
- Brief insight 5: NHS Fife: ADAPT-KY8 Community Recovery Group
- Brief insight 6: NHS Forth Valley: Substance Use Recovery Development Worker Pilot
- Brief insight 7: NHS Forth Valley: Community Buprenorphine Prescribing Pilot
- Brief insight 8: Glasgow City Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Sustainable Interventions Supporting Change Outside (SISCO): Multiple Pathways to Recovery
- Brief insight 9: Glasgow City ADP: The Wand Harm Reduction Initiative
- Brief insight 10: NHS Highland: Caithness Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service (CDARS): Assertive Outreach Project
- Brief insight 11: Highland Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Argyll & Bute Addiction Team (ABAT): Improving Choice and Access to Care in Cowal
- Brief insight 12: Inverclyde Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Turning Point Scotland: Early Help in Custody Team
- Brief insight 13: Mid & East Lothian Alcohol & Drug Partnership: East Lothian Substance Use Service: Assertive Outreach and Same Day Access
- Brief insight 14: Pan-Ayrshire Alcohol & Drug Partnerships: An Integrated Approach to MAT Implementation
- Brief insight 15: Perth & Kinross Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Integrated Drugs & Alcohol Team (IDART)
- Brief insight 16: Scottish Ambulance Service: Non-Fatal Overdose Pathway
- Brief insight 17: Scottish Borders Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Eyemouth Health Check Project
- Brief insight 18: Scottish Prison Service: HMP Edinburgh: Trauma Informed Practice Pilot
- Brief insight 19: Scottish Prison Service: HMP Perth: Persons of Concern Review Group
- Brief insight 20: West Dunbartonshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership: West Dunbartonshire Addiction Service: Same Day Access to MAT
- Brief insight 21: West Lothian Alcohol & Drug Partnership: A Human Rights Based Approach
MAT Standards National Learning Sessions
Learning Session 3: Involvement for Improvement (21 July 2023)
We are delighted to invite you to the third session of Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s MAT Standards webinar series. This session will focus on the voices of both people with lived and living experience and people working alongside thein their recovery journey. Additionally, the webinar will offer space for attendees to connect and reflect on their own implementation experiences with opportunity to collectively consider next steps for MAT Standards implementation.
Continue reading and register here: Learning Session 3: Involvement for Improvement (21 July 2023)
Learning Session 2: Access, Choice and Support (9 June 2023)
Presentations in this webinar included West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership's Addiction Service on same day access to treatment, NHS Dumfries & Galloway on a local pilot project delivering Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine (LAIB), Healthcare Improvement Scotland on Quality Improvement (QI) and tools for spreading innovation and NHS Forth Valley with Recovery Scotland on partnership working between psychological therapies and recovery development workers.
Continue reading: Learning Session 2: Access, Choice and Support (June 2023)
Learning Session 1: Connections, Reflections and Progress (21 April 2023)
In this webinar Elena Whitham, Alcohol and Drugs Minister, shared a note of appreciation recognising the efforts made by services across Scotland to implement the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards. The webinar also shared examples of emerging practice from across Scotland with presentations from services including the Scottish Ambulance Service on their national Non-Fatal Overdose Pathway, Caithness & Sutherland Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service on assertive outreach, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s on their Wound care, Assessment of injecting risk, Naloxone and Dry blood spot testing (WAND) project and from Sustainable Interventions Supporting Change Outside (SISCO) on Multiple Pathways to Recovery.
Continue reading: Learning Session 1: Connections, Reflections and Progress (April 2023)