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  • New NHS 'Drinking causes damage you can't see' campaign website
    New NHS website offers a range of tools and information to help assess and cut down harmful drinking, supporting the 'Drinking Causes Damage You Can't See' campaign.
  • Alcohol related death rates to 2008 released
    From the Office for National Statistics, latest available figures to 2008.
  • CDRP programme to tackle binge drinking
    50 Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) across the UK have been involved in a £1.5m partnership support programme run by the Home Office Alcohol Strategy Unit to tackle binge drinking and related crime and anti-social behaviour and reassure communities that action is being taken to address the problems.
  • Department of Health: campaign update
    Following ministerial approval, the Department of Health's new national campaign, Alcohol Effects will go live at the beginning of February 2010.
  • Alcohol social marketing toolkit
    A new toolkit on developing alcohol social marketing activity for higher risk drinkers is set to launch in March 2010. The toolkit will detail a social marketing best practice approach and include guidance on how to use new segmentation and evaluation tools from the Department of Health. It will be useful for NHS social marketers, as well as for the agencies they contract to deliver social marketing programmes.
  • 4th National Alcohol Conference; full presentations now available
    In November last year, the Home Office, Department of Health and Department of Children, Schools and Families in partnership with colleagues in the North West hosted the 4th National Alcohol Conference, "Safe Sensible Social: Supporting Delivery" in Liverpool. Presentations are now aviable to download courtesy of Alcohol Policy UK. Topics included:-Best Practice and Case Law Update (Liz Meek, Government Office for the North West) -Newquay night-time economy approach -The Role Of Schools (Part 2), Anne Trout, PHSE Consultant -Tackling Alcohol Related Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (Day 1) -Tackling Alcohol Related Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (Day 2)-Think Family, Shaun Hilditch, DCSF, Dr Arif Rajpura, NHS Blackpool
  • Safe. Sensible. Social. Selling alcohol responsibly: government response to the consultation on the code of practice for alcohol retailers.
    This report sets out the key themes from analysis of the consultation findings and the response to them. It also sets out the next steps in the work on the mandatory code for alcohol retailers [Home Office, UK]
  • London Drink Debate: findings and public survey opens
    The London Drink Debate has opened an online survey for Londoners to give their views on the role of alcohol in their community. The survey will form part of the London Drink Debate.
  • Health Committee - First Report Alcohol
    The report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 December 2009
  • Alcohol-related hospital admissions data to 2008-9 (parliamentary answer)
    According to newly published statistics alcohol-related hospital admissions have increased by 47% over the last five years.
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The Alcohol Learning Centre aims to share resources on local alcohol improvement interventions nationally. The appropriateness of initiatives will vary from one local area to another and inclusion of local initiatives, or actions, on this site does not represent endorsement by the Department of Health. Wherever possible we have described the evidence on which interventions are based. We work with and are funded by the Department of Health (opens a new window).