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  • Do you work with young people and parents?
    While fewer young people are drinking, those who do are drinking more, putting themselves at greater risk of harm.
  • Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) activity targets healthcare professionals
    A recent survey of healthcare professionals revealed that the purpose and effectiveness of Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) is currently misunderstood.
  • Better Understanding Of Effective Interventions Could Help Healthcare Professionals Reduce Alcohol Harm
    GPs and nurses can do more to increase delivery of Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) . This was the finding of research commissioned as part of the Alcohol Effects campaign that indicates some healthcare professionals may underestimate its potential impact.
  • NOMS Guidance Published
    The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has developed best practice guidance for probation staff on the effective commissioning, management and delivery of a range of interventions for alcohol misusing offenders.Courtesy Alcohol Policy UK
  • Survey of GP's knowledge, attitutes and practices toward interventions now published
    A survey of general practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the prevention and management of alcohol-related problems: an update of a World Health Organisation survey ten years on' has been released by the AERC.
  • New report published: Children, Young People and Alcohol
    This research was undertaken to better understand parents' and young people's attitudes and behaviour towards alcohol and alcohol consumption. It was designed to investigate how children's behaviour may be influenced by their parents' attitudes and behaviour towards alcohol
  • Government launches drink labelling consultation
    The Government is launching a UK wide consultation on 15 February 2009 to consider how best to improve unit and health information for consumers on alcohol labels, whether through a renewed and strengthened voluntary agreement or a mandatory requirement through legislation under the Food Safety Act. The consultation is being launched jointly by the Department of Health, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government, and the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
  • 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.
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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).