Primary Care and Missingness: Mental health and substance use national learning event, October 2025

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On Wednesday 30 October, our Mental Health and Substance Use team hosted an online national learning webinar. This webinar focused on primary care and ‘missingness’ and explored:

• models of drug treatment care in general practice and community pharmacy and evidence review findings
• managing substance use in primary care
• pharmacy: Mental health and substance use support in your neighbourhood
• applying a missingness lens to healthcare

People who took part in the webinar shared some helpful ideas you might want to think about:

• consider within teams ways to improve services for people and look at training for staff on stigma and trauma-informed care
• understand more about missingness and improve practice by acknowledging reasons why people do not always come to appointments
• consider how alcohol and drug partnerships can work jointly with primary care

Catch up on the webinar

If you missed the webinar, watch the recording below:

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