In various instances PHNs also commission services and support responses for AOD issues through additional schedules and activities such as First Nations social and emotional wellbeing programs.
PHNs also hold a significant role in supporting primary care to build capacity to support the needs of their communities, such as supporting general practice and community pharmacists to be trained in the legislative requirements and skills to prescribe and dispense pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence, and better integrating AOD support services with GPs.
This VTPHNA submission highlights issues and lessons specific to the Victorian and Tasmanian PHN context of planning, designing and commissioning alcohol and other drugs initiatives.
