NHS - Patient Feedback
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said 'the NHS will now be judged on patients' feedback on care'. No other treatment center in the UK has more or more comprehensive client feedback than us, making us the UK's No 1 choice for treatment help to stop smoking, stop drinking or stop using drugs.

We are the only treatment center to have their client testimonials verified by two independent legal firms. Please read how our treatment methods have helped others to stop drinking and regain control.

It's a simple fact, the 'evidence based clinical treatment methods used to treat addiction and dependency do not work and the methods that do work are blocked by the NTA'.

Annually the NHS costs the tax payer £1.5billion for drug, alcohol and smoking treatments which 'do not work, have poor outcomes and bad results' as targets have focused on the 'numbers in treatment' rather than the outcome of that treatment, this is wasteful and irresponsible at any time, especially in the current economic climate.

But now the coalition Government plans to move to outcome targets rather than process targets. Health Minister Andrew Lansley said "I want to free the NHS from bureaucracy and targets that have no clinical justification and move to an NHS which measures its performance on patient outcomes'.

Professor Karol Sikora
'The art of medicine is being able to sort out the important from the trivial rapidly and cheaply. Maintaining health – physical, psychological and spiritual – in what many perceive to be a toxic world is a major challenge. So let's use all the weapons we have; end destructive arguments about complementary medicine, internecine disputes between professional groups and the endless expansion of bureaucracy chasing elusive and often irrelevant targets. Outcomes are the only key to success'.

We agree with Professor Sikora who is speaking in the best interest of the patient which are over looked with the present system, he wants to use ALL the tools available to treat a patient not just drugs, he wants to involve complementary medicine, stop the mutually destructive disputes which block such treatments and focus on the patients and their health rather than bureaucracy.

Improving Patient Care While Reducing Costs
By introducing our addiction therapy treatment into GP's practices or walk-in centers nationwide, patient's would have access to an out-patient treatment process which is effective in helping to stop smoking, stop drinking or stop using drugs. Patients could attend on a needs basis and detox either quickly or over a longer period of time to suit their physical or emotional needs. Relapsing would no longer be an issue or a waste of initial treatment costs [which are substantially lower] as patients would simply return to be treated again with further top up treatment sessions to help maintain their non-dependency taking just one to two hours per session. It is estimated up to £800million per annum could be saved using this model and it also would help facilitate the goal of redesigning the NHS, with services moved out of hospitals and into the community.

Current treatment costs including smoking cessation are £1.5billion per annum and deliver success rates of just 12% for smoking cessation nationally, alcohol treatments have been described as dire by a Health select committee of MPs and drug treatment success rates are very low at just 4.3%, (even this figure is disputed by experts who say 'the numbers of addicts emerging from Government treatment programmes are at the same level as if there had been no treatment at all').

There are also an additional cost savings available as smokers cost the NHS £5billion per annum while drug and alcohol abuse cost society up to £29billion per annum, a huge proportion of this £34billion could be saved with more effective treatment tools.

Heroin substitue prescribing alone costs £300million per annum, so over the next 5 year term, the coalition government could save £1.5billion by using our treatment methods to help reduce drug dependency, an area the new government wants to overhaul.

Tackling Problem Drug Use Report 2010
A Report by the National Audit office confirms 'The Government is spending £1.2 billion in 2009-10 with the objective of bringing down the costs to society of problem drug use of £15 billion a year. But there is no framework in place for evaluating the achievements of the 2008 Strategy which limits Departments' understanding of the overall value for money achieved and where future resources should be prioritised. Without an evaluative framework for the Strategy as a whole we are not able to conclude positively on value for money'.

Critics say 'this is ridiculous, the NHS is spending £1.2bn a year on their drug treatment strategy but have no idea of whether or not it is successful. The lack of a 'evaluative framework' is either, intentional so the NTA can hide their dismal success rate, which was a questionable 4.3% in 2009 or gross incompetence'.

As a result of this failure, Britain has one of the highest levels of drug addiction in Europe. Drug and alcohol abuse costs society around £39 billion per year, so there has never been a greater need for change and better treatment options. The CBI argee that present government policy actually restricts innovation and change rather than utilising it and 'public procurement should be a driver, not a blocker, of innovation'. Read their full report 'Best of Health' here.

Breakthrough Britain - Addiction Report 2007
"During a decade of Labour drugs strategy, policy itself has become an intrinsic part of the problem. It has been a costly investment in failure. The combination of centralised targets and a ‘medical management' approach to treatment has further entrenched addiction, adding to intergenerational cycles of substance dependency".Click here for further details.

Report on Addiction Policy
The Centre for Policy Studies report on government addiction policy says Labour is 'squandering billions on ineffective treatment' and 'costly treatment programmes which do not work'. The Tory's have said they will abandon Labours failed 'harm reduction' policy. “Labour always focuses on the process while we think what really matters is whether you are better after your treatment,” a Conservative spokesman said.

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