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It’s a lose-lose situation for
commissioners, providers and
most importantly service users
as tenders are issued where it
is just not possible for even the
leanest organisation to deliver...
has been the focus of both the APPG Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis People
powered recovery report and the EMCDDA paper, User-led interventions – an
expanding resource? But where do they sit in the commissioning framework?’
In too many instances, peer-led initiatives are not written into the tender
specification at all, he says – or if there are, they are levered into service provision
as ‘added value’. In such cases, the specification is often ‘so fuzzy it risks
becoming meaningless’, with the vast potential to add valuable layers of peer
support and aftercare completely missed.
The practice of ‘whole system commissioning’ excludes many peer-led
organisations with strong track re