Institute of Psychiatry, National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/NTORS
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: Institute of Psychiatry, National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS)
Date(s)	: 1995-2000
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 54 boxes or 18 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: National Addiction Centre | Institute of Psychiatry The Substance Misuse Advisory Service

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) project was conducted 1995-2000 to gather information in England and Wales about the treatment outcomes of more than a thousand problem drug users who were recruited into 54 residential or community treatment programmes. It was conducted by the The National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry and funded by the Department of Health.

The Substance Misuse Advisory Service (SMAS) was set up, following the review of the Health Advisory Service in 1996, to replace the Drug Advisory Service. SMAS became operational on 1 Oct 1997 and was a three year, centrally-funded project by the consortium which assumed responsibility for the Health Advisory Service (the Royal College of Psychiatry, the British Geriatric Society and the Office of Public Management). The aim of SMAS was to assist health and local authorities in England in developing their commissioning practice and improving the quality of drug and alcohol treatment services available. It eventually became part of the National Treatment Agency.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Research data from the National Treatment Outcome Research Study and the Substance Misuse Advisory Service, 1995-2000.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Original order. Files are chiefly arranged by region.

Conditions governing access:

The collection contains sensitive personal information, apply to the Director of Archive Services and Information Management, King's College London, for details on access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

Box list

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the National Addiction Centre, 2007.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Nov 2008.