Social Inclusion Services p.48

Services Provided

Social inclusion works across a range of statutory services in partnership with the community and voluntary sectors, to address health inequalities and to improve access to health services for socially disadvantaged groups.

In 2020, the planned level of service to be delivered are as follows:

• 10,145 clients will be in receipt of opioid substitution treatment (outside prisons)
• 1,245 service users admitted to homeless emergency accommodation hostels / facilities whose health needs will have been assessed within two weeks of admission
• 1,894 individuals will attend pharmacy needle exchange.

Addiction Services p.49

- Continue the expansion of community-based healthcare services to minimise the harms from misuse of substances and to promote rehabilitation and recovery, in line with Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery

- Continue to implement the health-led response to the Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery with an emphasis on strengthening governance structures

- Mental health and social inclusion services working together will implement a model of service for co-occurring mental health and substance misuse concerns among at risk groups

- Continue to develop services for pregnant women with substance use problems by recruiting an additional two drug and alcohol liaison midwives

- Implement a pilot programme, in conjunction with An Garda Síochána and relevant areas within the DoH and the Department of Justice and Equality, by the end of 2020, with a view to the phased implementation of a health-led response to individuals found in possession of drugs for personal use by setting up a SAOR intervention in targeted areas.

Homeless Health

• Provide additional supports for homelessness and addiction services, including the establishment of a residential treatment service for homeless women and children in the mid-west region commencing on a phased basis in 2020 with full year implementation in 2021 (see note regarding commitment to additional funding on page 75)
• Implement the health actions, identified as a priority in 2020, in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, 2016, and Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery – A health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017- 2025 in order to provide the most appropriate primary care and specialist addiction / mental health services for homeless people