2009 DIR Training - Prisons February - March 2009

2009 DIR Training - Prisons

February - March 2009

The forms, their purpose and the data collection systems

What is the DIR?

The DIR was developed to support effective sharing of information about clients between organisations involved in their care, and to collect information for monitoring and research purposes

Completed in the community by CJITs and in prisons by Healthcare / CARATs for all clients assessed aged 18+ in England & Wales

• Drug Interventions Record (DIR)

• Initial Contact Form

• Activity Form

A suite of forms for capturing information on clients in contact with substance misuse treatment services via the criminal justice system. Forms used in prisons are:

Purpose of the DIR

Three main purposes:

Continuity of Care• To facilitate and improve

standards of continuity of care for clients and minimise duplication of assessment as clients move between the community and prisons and vice versa

• Collects a standard set of information that can be shared and understood by workers nationally

Monitoring and Research

• Data is used for the performance assurance of IDTS & DIP

• From April this will extend to informing PSA 25

• Local interrogation of DIRWeb provides information for managing performance and informing commissioning

SMTA Form• DIR is the SMTA form

used in prisons

• NB. When a client has been referred in from another prison or community, and a DIR has been received a new DIR must not be completed, instead an Activity Form (section 1,2 & 4) must be completed

Who completes the forms in prisons?

Both Healthcare and CARATs

As a minimum Healthcare must complete the first 6 sections of the DIR if a client undergoes an SMTA*

Healthcare and CARATs should work together to ensure that the DIR is completed, and accurately reflects what treatment the client has started

Any significant changes whilst a client is being case managed must be recorded on an Activity Form, including any new treatment information – again Healthcare need to be involved to ensure all treatment interventions are captured

* If client refuses to engage with CARATs then Healthcare will need to complete up to, and including, Section 8 (form cannot be ‘exited’ before Section 8).

How does the M&R data get processed for prisons?

Forms are completed by workers and posted to a data management centre (5 across England)

Forms entered into a live web-based system called ‘DIRWeb’

Once a month the centre extracts data held in DIRWeb into its national database, the DIP Management Information System (DMIS)

All central reporting comes from data held in DMIS - this includes extracts of prisons data that will be matched with NDTMS

DMISDIRWebReportsForms

What is DIRWeb?

DIRWeb is the “live” IT system that the forms are entered into for prisons and most CJITs

DIRWeb is accessible over the internet (Prison service intranet) Client records held in DIRWeb for a particular prison can be viewed by that

prison (but not by others) – data could be used in local needs analysis e.g. profiling of clients - ethnicity, drug misuse etc

The website has a Help page with User Guides for the site and also acts as a communication point for the community and prisons

For read-only access to your data please contact the DIRWeb Administrator for a login and password: Ade Lett, Interventions Substance Misuse Group, MoJ, Phone 01902 703 207 or email: [email protected]

What is DIRWeb?

Who processes the forms?

Data management centre Regions covered Phone number

Liverpool John Moores University, Centre for Public Health

East, North East, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, North West - Merseyside & Cheshire

0151 231 4386

South East Public Health Observatory South East 01865 334 725 South West Public Health Observatory South West 01179 706 474 University of Manchester, National Drug Evidence Centre

North West - Cumbria & Lancashire 0161 275 1662

London NDTMS team, National Treatment Agency

London, East Midlands 020 7261 8211

Problems with data collection so far

Correct form completion process not being followed

Activity Forms not being used routinely, or in some prisons, at all

Information gaps, e.g. treatment interventions delivered are not being recorded

Cases not being closed when clients are released (requires an Activity Form to be completed) – prison caseloads on DMIS / DIRWeb are over-inflated as they still include clients that have been released

The impact of the above is that performance reporting is not accurately reflecting the work that prisons are doing with clients

Questions

Form completion and process

The forms

The forms used in prisons are:

Initial Contact Form (ICF)

Drug Interventions Record (DIR)

Activity Form (AF)

Summary of rules for use

= Meaningful contact but no SMTA

= SMTA only OR SMTA + CSMA + care plan

= Treatment updates for client on caseload OR

Client transferred in (already has a DIR) OR

Client suspended, closed or re-engaged

InitialContact

Form

DIR

ActivityForm

ICF

A one-page form to be completed when a non-caseload client has been referred to CARATs and CARATs have made a meaningful contact with the client which does not progress to SMTA

Meaningful contact = worker has provided to the client, on a one-to-one basis, an explanation of the substance misuse services being offered, including confidentiality and consent, and harm min advice

ICF includes 3 sections – form completion details, client details, contact details (includes reason client did not have an SMTA)

If the client agrees to a SMTA the DIR must be completed instead

A new “green” ICF will be brought in after 1st April - nationality

DIR

The DIR is completed by both the Community and Prisons

Used as a tool for continuity of care (blue side) and monitoring and research (green side)

In addition to the SMTA the DIR also records the next steps, e.g.:

non-structured interventions delivered to address immediate needs

whether client needs further intervention

whether client agrees to that further intervention

client transferred elsewhere prior to CSMA

CSMA

full care plan, including treatment interventions started

DIR - sections

The DIR has 9 sections plus a consent section for Continuity of Care - the 9 sections cover:

Section1 Form completion details2 Client details & immediate action3 Contact details4 SMTA details5 Legal profile6 Drug and alcohol use7 Social needs profile - housing, finance, parental status, employment, and

immediate actions (non-structured interventions in prisons)8 Further intervention needed / accepted

Details of any client transfer prior to CSMA9 Care plan and caseload - CSMA, full care plan, treatment and non-

treatment interventions started

DIR – what is changing from 1st April?

Client ‘Nationality at birth’ added to Section 2 – this requires a 3-letter country code e.g. GBR

Section 6 drug misuse & treatment: 6.2 changed – tick up to 3 drugs used with Drug 1 recorded as the

main drug, and record the frequency for each of the drugs ticked (maximum of 3)

New question (6.2b) - Route of administration of Drug 1 – inject, sniff, smoke etc

6.4 changed to ‘What age did you start using Drug 1?’ 6.6 changed to ‘What is your injecting status?’ – never, current,

previous 6.15 changed to ‘Has a first night initial clinical intervention been

provided by a doctor?’ – Yes or No, if Yes tick ‘prescribed methadone’ or ‘prescribed other’

DIR – what is changing from 1st April?

New question at 7.13 to record any non-structured treatment interventions delivered to address immediate needs which cannot wait until CSMA – list includes harm reduction, overdose management, brief intervention for alcohol, crack awareness & other

Additional tick box added to 8.1 to indicate where the client does not need further intervention because a CSMA is not required but low level interventions have been provided

DIR – rules for completion

The DIR must only be completed when: The client is new to DIP and agrees to a SMTA

or

The client has been referred in from the community (CJIT) or another prison but NO DIR has been received

Where a prisoner has accessed CARATs in a previous prison the sending prison must send on the DIR within 5 days of release, ideally with the prisoner and along with any other relevant case notes. The receiving prison must check whether the DIR has been received – a new DIR MUST NOT be opened unless the previous case has been closed

DIR – rules for completion

Not all fields need to be completed by both prisons and the community, fields that are specific to one or the other are denoted as follows:

P – For use by PRISON workers ONLY

C – For use by CJIT workers ONLY

Prisons have 20 working days from the SMTA date to complete the DIR before sending off the M&R side for data entry – this should allow for the CSMA and care plan to be captured before sending off

DIR – key stages

DIR stages from SMTA to CSMA & Care Plan:

SMTA complete and client needs

further intervention(8.1 = Yes)

CSMA completed with client(9.1 = Yes)

Care plan agreed with

client post-CSMA(9.3 = Yes)

Client transferredtransferred to CJIT or

another prison prior to CSMA

(8.6 / 8.8)

Client agrees to further

intervention(8.2 = Yes)

SMTA completed but client does

NOT need further

intervention – e.g. low-level

interventions met(8.1 = No)

OR

Any subsequent significant events for these clients

are to be recorded on anActivity Form

DIR – Exit points

There are a number of ‘EXIT’ points on the DIR – this is where the form completion stops because the client is not moving onto the next stage

e.g. the client has had an SMTA but refused further intervention, or is being released prior to CSMA and therefore referred to their CJIT

Exit points occur in section 8 and 9 of the DIR and are marked

When an EXIT point is reached no further questions should be completed, the M&R side of the form must be separated and sent to the data entry centre. The Continuity of Care (blue) side must be keep on the CARATs case file for future reference if the client later engages

DIR – Summary of Exit points

8.1 - Client does not need further intervention

8.2 - Client does not agree to further

intervention

9.1 - CSMA has not been completed

because the client has disengaged from

services

8.6 - Client transferred to CJIT

8.8 – Client transferred to another prison

EXIT point at CSMAEXIT points post-SMTA but prior to CSMA

EXIT point post-CSMA

9.3 – Care plan has not been

agreed with client

DIR - CSMA & care plan

If a client was identified in the SMTA as needing further intervention (8.1 = Yes) and agreed to further intervention (8.2 = Yes) a CSMA must be arranged

A full care plan (9.3) cannot be agreed without a CSMA If the client is unable to attend the CSMA because they will be / have

been released CARATs must refer the client to their local CJIT and complete 8.6, recording the code of the DAT they have been referred to – this is an Exit point, so no further sections of the DIR should be completed

If a CSMA has not been attended because the client was in custody less than one month, the CJIT should be contacted (as above) and 8.6 completed (Exit) – 9.1 should NOT be completed

DIR - Caseload

Once a client has a CSMA completed AND has agreed a care plan (9.1 & 9.3 both = Yes) they are now considered to be “on the caseload”

NB. Clients who have a SMTA, with or without some low-level interventions, but do not go onto CSMA and care plan are NOT on the caseload of the prison – these are “Triage” clients, not “Active” clients

Clients that have agreed an initial care plan with CARATs can be determined from the new data field 7.13, but if they do not go on to CSMA & full care plan they are NOT on the caseload

Whilst “on the caseload” (as defined above) any subsequent significant events that happen to the client must be recorded on an Activity Form

Under IDTS a client is considered to be “in treatment” once they are “on the caseload”

DIR - data

From the DIR M&R data we can determine:

How many clients needed further intervention (i.e. CSMA)?

How many clients did not need further intervention but low-level interventions delivered?

How many clients agreed to further intervention?

How many clients were transferred elsewhere prior to CSMA?

How many CSMAs have been completed?

How many clients with a CSMA agreed a care plan?

Questions

Activity Form

The AF is for Monitoring & Research purposes only The specific aim of the AF is to record significant or key events for a

client who is already on your caseload (client has had CSMA & care plan) or a client transferred from another prison or CJIT

When to use the AF:

To update information on the treatment interventions delivered to a client on your caseload (Section 1,2 & 3)

To record info about a client transferred into the prison from another prison or the community, where the DIR has been received (Section 1,2 & 4)

To re-engage a previously suspended client, or to suspend or close a client (Section 1,2 & 5)

Activity Form – the sections

1. Form completion

2. About the client

3. Client is already on the CARATs caseload

records care plan review date

records structured treatment interventions in the current care plan that have ended

records treatment interventions which have commenced as part of current care plan


4. Client transferred from another CARAT/CJIT

records the substances misused that brought the client into treatment

records first night clinical intervention

CSMA

Care Plan

records treatment interventions which have commenced


5. Client re-engagement, case suspension or closure

client re-engaged & reason

case suspension & reason

case closure & reason

records structured treatment interventions that have ended as a result of the suspension / closure

Activity Form – what is changing from 1st April?

Client ‘Nationality at birth’ added to Section 2 – this requires a 3-letter country code e.g. GBR

Section 3 changes: Care plan review date is to be recorded at 3.1 if client’s treatment need

changes (3.3) or client’s treatment completes / stops (3.2) New question (3.2) to record the end dates for structured treatment

intervention/s in the current care plan and to record the “exit status” of the intervention – planned, unplanned or intervention withdrawn

(3.2 is a requirement of NDTMS – NDTMS need to know the start and end dates of all structured interventions)

3.3 is to record the commencement dates of any treatment interventions (structured and non-structured) delivered as part of the current care plan which have started since the DIR was sent off (or AF sent off if the client was transferred in)

Activity Form – what is changing from 1st April?

Section 4 and 5 is now merged into one Section. The new Section 4 includes two new questions:

4.2a – Which substance misused by the client brought them into treatment? Tick up to 3 substances, with Drug 1 the most relevant

4.2b ‘Has a first night initial clinical intervention been provided by a doctor?’ (clients coming from community) – Yes or No, if Yes tick ‘prescribed methadone’ or ‘prescribed other’

New Section 5 (re-engage / suspend / close) has minor changes to case closures reasons and a new question at 5.7 to capture the end dates and exit status of any interventions ended as a result of case suspension or closure – when a a client is suspended, transferred or released all “open” interventions in a given prison must be closed off

Activity Form – why is it important

Enables us to see how effectively clients are moved between community and prison teams (and vice versa), and between prisons

Provides information on the range of treatment interventions delivered to clients whilst they are in prison

Without information collected on the AF we cannot determine, for example:

how effectively you are working to get offenders into treatment

what your actual “in treatment” caseload is

what volume of clients you are referring to the community on release

How the Activity Form works

Client had SMTA + CSMA + care plan in this prison: Activity

Form(1,2 & 3)

ActivityForm

(1,2 & 4)

Record changes to

treatment

DIR

DIR

Activity Form

(1,2 & 5)

Record:Case closureCase suspensionCase re-engaged

= client on “Active” caseload of the prison

Client had SMTA in another prison or CJIT – DIR completed elsewhere:

Record client transfer

DIR sent on to this (receiving) prison

Activity Form – some rules for use (1)

Any clients with a CARATs file who have not had a CSMA and full care plan must NOT have the Activity Form completed for them as they are not seen as “Active” on DIRWeb, except in the following circumstances:

1. The client has transferred from another prison or the community – their transfer must be recorded under AF Section 4

2. The client had an SMTA in a given prison but did not agree to further intervention, or disengaged prior to CSMA and full care plan, but then later agrees to engage with the CARATs in that prison – these clients may be “re-engaged” by completing AF Section 5.1 & 5.2 so long as they have a CSMA and care plan – they will then be taken onto the “Active” caseload


Re-engagement: If a client previously disengaged, or completed their previous care plan but needs re-engagement for pre-release planning, they can be “re-engaged” using an Activity Form – this takes them back onto the “Active” caseload. Re-engagement assumes they have had a CSMA and agreed a new care plan

A client can only be “re-engaged” (AF Section 5.1 & 5.2) if:

1. They have previously been suspended from the “Active” caseload within the same prison

2. They have chosen to re-engage following an earlier decision not to engage in the CSMA and care plan process in that same prison – they must have a CSMA and care plan to be re-engaged, this also applies to pre-release planning

Clients suspended in a previous prison and transferred cannot be “re-engaged” by the receiving prison, they must be taken onto the receiving prison’s caseload via AF Section 4


Suspensions and closures: A client can only be suspended or closed if the client had a CSMA

and had agreed a full care plan, i.e. they have to have been “Active”

Suspending an “Active” client: Complete sections 1, 2 and 5.3 (date suspended), 5.4 (reasons for suspension) and 5.7 (to close off any open treatment interventions that have stopped, if not already recorded via a previous AF Section 3)

Closing an “Active” or “Suspended” client: All clients released or transferred who were on the “Active” caseload or “Suspended” caseload (N.B. as defined above) must have their case closed at release or transfer to another prison (AF Section 1, 2 and 5.5 – 5.7)


A client should be suspended from the “Active” caseload of a given prison (AF Section 1, 2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.7) if: They have disengaged from CARATs They are unable to engage due to incapacity They have completed their care plan and no further treatment is

required at present

No work takes place with the client whilst they are suspended (other than attempts to re-engage them in treatment, if they had disengaged)

If a suspended client requires pre-release work they must be “re-engaged” (AF 5.1 & 5.2)

Activity Form – recording client transfers

How should client transfers to the community be recorded?

CARATs contact CJIT as part of pre-release planning*

On release the client’s case must be closed by CARATs: complete AF section 1, 2 & 5.5 - 5.7

5.6 = tick “Client transferred from prison to CJIT” and record DAT code of CJIT client is going to

* CARATs send copy of prison DIR, if there is one, and any other relevant info to CJIT SPOC

CARATs record case closure and transfer to CJIT

(AF 1, 2 & 5.5-5.7)

CJIT receives referral and records whether client has

been “picked up” in community (CJIT completes an AF)


How should client transfers from the community to prison be recorded?

CJIT should contact prison SPOC to alert Healthcare / CARATs of client’s arrival

If client was assessed by CJIT they should send copy of DIR to the prison

The receiving prison should review the DIR and complete Activity Form Section 1, 2 & 4

The prison must not complete a new DIR if they have received one from the CJIT

CJIT contact prison SPOC and send copy of DIR

Healthcare / CARATs review DIR and complete AF 1, 2 & 4


How should client transfers to other prisons be recorded?

Prison to Prison transfers follows very similar process and similar form completion

CARATs transferring the client close the case, completing Activity Form 1, 2 & 5.5-5.7, tick 5.6 “Client transferred to another prison”, recording the DIP prison code of the prison the client is being transferred to

Healthcare / CARATs at receiving prison complete an Activity Form when they receive the client, filling in Sections 1, 2 & 4, and not a new DIR

Activity Form – Exit points

There are two ‘EXIT’ points on the Activity Form under Section 4 – client transferred from another CARAT/CJIT:

1. The client does not have a current CSMA at transfer (4.3=No) and one is not going to be completed for them (4.3 EXIT)

2. The client has a CSMA but they have not agreed a care plan since transfer (4.5 EXIT)

From this point the form completion stops because the client is not moving onto the next stage with this prison – the client is not taken onto the “Active” caseload

Forms recap

What form, When:

When client has a meaningful contact but does not go onto SMTA

When client undergoes SMTA

When client is transferred in and already has a DIR from elsewhere

ORTo provide treatment updates on caseload clients

ORTo suspend, re-engage or close a case

Initial Contact

Form

DIR

Activity Form

Caseload definition

A client’s caseload status is defined as follows:

Or

Or

Caseload status is determined by the most recent of the dates above for that client

AF Section 4.5

Care plan agreed = Yes

AF Section 5.3

Date case suspended

AF Section 5.1

Client re-engaged

“Suspended”“Active”

DIR 9.3

Care plan agreed = Yes

Questions

Scenarios – working in groups

Outline

3 scenarios to discuss in groups for total of 25 mins

Groups to be comprised of two prisons together, with each group having the EDC, Healthcare Manager and CARATs Manager from each of the two establishments

Questions

Recording treatment interventionson the forms

Recording prisons treatment on the forms

Substance misuse treatment delivered in prisons must be recorded on the DIR and / or Activity Form where applicable

It is important that CARATs and Healthcare work together to ensure that the information is completed, and accurately reflects what treatment the client has received

This information is analysed and used in the performance assurance for IDTS, and will be used in the measurement of PSA 25 on numbers in effective treatment across the community and prisons

Recording prisons treatment on the forms

The forms contain treatment questions in the following fields:

DIR

Question 6.15

Question 7.13

Question 9.5

Activity Form

Questions 3.2 and 3.3

Questions 4.2b and 4.6

Question 5.7

How should treatment be recorded on the forms?

DIR – SMTA

DIR 6.15: Has a first night initial clinical intervention been provided by a doctor – tick Yes or No, if Yes record if prescribed methadone or other


DIR – SMTA

DIR 7.13: Tick any low level treatment interventions delivered to address immediate needs prior to CSMA


DIR – Care plan post-CSMA

DIR 9.5: If care plan agreed with client (9.3) and treatment is to be delivered or has commenced as part of care plan, complete this section


Activity Form - client already on caseload

AF 3.2: If a client is already on this prison’s caseload and any treatment interventions in the current care plan have since ended, record end date and exit status here


Activity Form - client already on caseload

AF 3.3: If a client is already on this prison’s caseload and any additional treatment interventions have started since the care plan was agreed (e.g. after DIR sent off for data entry), record here


Activity Form - client transferred in

AF 4.2b: If a client has been transferred from a CJIT or another prison, tick here whether any first night initial clinical intervention has been provided by a doctor


Activity Form - client transferred in

AF 4.6: If a client has completed a CSMA and agreed a care plan following transfer from a CJIT or another prison, any new treatment interventions started must be recorded here


Activity Form - client transferred in – key points

Once a client that has transferred in from another prison or CJIT and has agreed a care plan with the current prison (post-CSMA), with AF section 1,2 & 4 completed, they are now deemed “on the caseload” under the DIR process

4.6. allows you to record any treatment commencement dates that occur around the time the care plan was agreed

Any updates to their treatment from this point forward must be recorded on an AF completing sections 1,2 & 3, as for any client on caseload, until they are closed off or suspended


Activity Form - all clients suspended or closed

AF 5.7: If a client’s case is suspended or closed all ‘open’ structured treatment interventions must be “closed off” i.e. have their end date and exit status recorded (last page of AF)

Summary – treatment recording

All treatment interventions must be recorded where applicable

For a client “on caseload” (i.e. CSMA and care plan) anything new or changed in the treatment interventions delivered to that client must be recorded on an Activity Form

Once a structured intervention has been completed the ‘end date’ and exit status must be recorded on an Activity Form (AF 3.2)

If a client is suspended or closed (due to release), record the date the treatment intervention(s) finished (AF 5.7)

Questions

Documents

2009 DIR Training - Prisons February - March 2009