“It’s an extremely difficult time for people when they leave prison and they can be at a higher risk of reoffending. We need to work together to maximise opportunities for engagement with support services, including clear pathways into community treatment … There is a link between trauma as a result of earlier life experiences, drug … Read more “FocusOn: Continuity of Care for Prison Leavers”
Read moreAt ILLY systems we are privileged to have been working within the substance misuse sector for many years. We take data quality very seriously so we’ve been working with OHID to ensure that your system has been NDTMS compliant since the introduction of Core Dataset C. Our role is to provide a safe and … Read more “FocusOn: NDTMS Core DataSet – R”
Read moreOn October 31st 2023, ILLY hosted its Annual Commissioner’s Forum, bringing together over 60 participants from various sectors such as Homelessness & Rough Sleeping, Substance Misuse, Mental Health, and Adult and YP community services. The topic of this year’s forum was ‘Improving Outcomes for people experiencing Multiple Disadvantage’, and we were extremely privileged to … Read more “ILLY Commissioners Forum 2023 – Improving Outcomes for people experiencing Multiple Disadvantage”
Read more“Be the change you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi Over the past year we have seen some of the biggest challenges that all our communities have faced – the key one being the increased cost of living and high prices of goods and services which have brought many vulnerable people into crises. … Read more “ILLY Commissioners Forum 2023 – Improving Outcomes for people experiencing Multiple Disadvantage”
Read moreILLY Systems are delighted to announce the 17th National User Group, to be held on the 16th November @ 11am to be held remotely. We wanted to thank everyone who has encouraged us to continue and make things better – we will not let you down. We have seen just how challenging the past few … Read more “ILLY 17th National User Group 2023”
Read more“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self” May Sarton (American novelist and poet) ILLY Systems: We have produced this article as part of our continued drive to make a real difference across our communities so that, together, we can build a better … Read more “FocusOn: Understanding Loneliness – A Universal Struggle”
Read moreILLY Systems empowers our partners to provide support to vulnerable adults and young people impacted by drug and alcohol misuse. In March 2023, we were excited to welcome the RIVER Service in Medway – delivered in partnership by Forward Trust and Open Road – into the ILLY Community. Medway is a unitary authority district … Read more “Success Story – On-Boarding Forward Trust ‘Medway Service’”
Read more> What’s the challenge? The biggest challenge facing the substance misuse sector today is the continuing rise of drug related deaths, particularly deaths from opioid overdose. Increasingly, this occurs when injecting heroin which has been cut with synthetic opiates – such as fentanyl – which can be up to 100 times stronger than heroin. Recently, … Read more “FocusOn: Contaminated Drug Alerts – Working together to safeguard those most at risk”
Read more“Fentanyl is becoming an increasingly serious problem in the UK … According to Public Health England, between 2015 and 2019, deaths from fentanyl-related drugs quadrupled”. Overview – What is Fentanyl? Fentanyl is a powerful, synthetic opioid that is prescribed to treat severe pain, for example following major surgery or for cancer patients. Fentanyl is much … Read more “FocusOn: Fentanyl: A problem on the rise”
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