FocusOn: Better Connected Care Article 1 of 4 Ketamine-related harm is rising. The challenge now is not only recognising the problem, but identifying risk earlier and connecting people with the right support. A year on: what has changed? Last year, our FocusOn article “Confronting the Growing Threat of Ketamine Misuse” looked at the rapid rise … Read more “FocusOn: Ketamine – From Prevention to Coordinated Care”
Read more20 Years Together. Shaping What Comes Next. For twenty years, our National User Group has brought together the people and organisations who use LINKS CarePath every day. This year, more than anything, we want to say thank you ! Thank you to the commissioners, service providers, managers, data teams, clinicians and keyworkers who continue to … Read more “ILLY National User Group 2026 – Wednesday 18 November 2026”
Read moreWe are genuinely thrilled to welcome the Turning Point North East Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership to the ILLY community. Delivered by Turning Point alongside Double Impact and Framework, the partnership provides integrated drug and alcohol support – spanning clinical treatment, housing, criminal justice, employment recovery support- to roughly 160,000 residents across Grimsby, Cleethorpes, and the surrounding … Read more “Delivering Trauma Informed Care across North East Lincolnshire”
Read moreOn 1st December 2025, Buckinghamshire Council successfully recommissioned its Young People’s (YP) drug and alcohol misuse service. The transition from the incumbent provider to the new service was designed with one priority in mind: ensuring a seamless, continuity of care for young residents in Buckinghamshire. By prioritising a neutral and secure data migration strategy, the … Read more “Success Story – Supporting the Transfer of Buckinghamshire’s Youth Service”
Read moreIn April 2025, we were delighted to welcome the Bracknell Forest New Hope service to the ILLY Community. About Bracknell Forest is a unitary authority and borough in Berkshire, South East England, centred around the towns of Bracknell and Sandhurst. It is home to over 130,000 people and rising. Challenges Despite relatively low overall … Read more “Bracknell Forest New Hope – Progress one year in”
Read more“Gambling is a public health emergency. We are seeing children as young as seven developing addictions, and families being destroyed by gambling-related suicide. Without decisive action … we risk a generational slip into gambling addiction that will cost the NHS for decades” Kevin McKenna MP – 15 January 2026 Background The UK has one of … Read more “FocusOn Gambling Harms: Integrating Gambling Support within the UK Healthcare Landscape”
Read more“Treatment services can help people stop using substances, but staying in recovery and rebuilding networks, skills, and purpose is much harder”. (Prof. Ed Day – DDN December 2025) Background LEROs – or Lived Experience Recovery Organisations – are independent, peer-led organisations that support people in recovery from substance misuse. The core concept of LEROs is … Read more “FocusOn LEROs: The Rising Influence of Lived Experience in Recovery”
Read moreCollaboration, Data, and Difference: A Look Back at the ILLY Community’s 2025 As 2025 draws to a close, we reflect on a year defined by purposeful collaboration and a collective commitment to supporting society’s most vulnerable. The pace of change across the public health and criminal justice sectors remains relentless, making the effective use of … Read more “ILLY Systems: 2025 Year in Review & Securing the Future for 2026”
Read moreWe’re really pleased to have hosted our 19th National User Group! It was a great day that brought us together to catch up, share ideas, and talk about what matters most to them. It was fantastic to see such a good mix of familiar faces and new ones. This year’s National User Group, themed … Read more “ILLY National User Group 2025 – Our 19th Year!”
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