How many people are waiting for drug and alcohol (a) inpatient and (b) residential rehabilitation services, broken down by NHS board.

A national waiting times informationframework was implemented in April 2004, to enable Alcohol and Drug Action Teams(ADATs) and local services to monitor waiting times for drug treatment and carein their local areas. Information on waiting times for alcohol rehabilitation programmesis not held centrally.
Document drug treatment waitingtimes January to March 2007 by Alcohol and Drug Action Team has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43147).
Table 1 presents information,by ADAT, on the number of clients by length of time waited for drug treatment, for(a) clients which have been offered an appointment date for any intervention and(b) clients who are still waiting for an appointment date for any intervention forthe period January to March 2007.
Table 2 presents information,by ADAT, on the number of clients by length of time waited, for (a) clients whohave been offered an appointment date for residential detoxification and rehabilitationand (b) clients who are still waiting for an appointment date for residential detoxificationand rehabilitation, for the period January to March 2007.