About Us

Who we are

The Alcohol Learning Centre (ALC) and Alcohol Improvement Programme (AIP) ran between April 2008 - March 2011 and were commissioned by the Department of Health to help reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions across the NHS.

Alcohol Learning Centre (ALC)

Is an on-line one-stop-shop which collates, co-ordinates and disseminates learning and promising practice from across the NHS and the Third Sector. It contains alcohol specific documents, guidance and tools, examples of alcohol harm reduction initiatives accross England and provides training resources to support frontline practitioners and commissioners in delivering Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) and the High Impact Changes for Alcohol.

Alcohol Improvement Programme

The objectives of the programme were to:

• Support capacity and capability building in local areas to ensure sustainable improvement in interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm.
• Collate and disseminate evidence, data, tools and guidance to support the NHS and local partners in delivering on the QIPP agenda and making efficiency savings available from improved alcohol services.
• Produce guidance on the key enablers and activities for change.
• Work with regions to ensure that local learning and innovation is shared nationally.

The Links below provide more detailed info about AIP initiatives:

Further Information

Vital Signs

Supporting the NHS, Local Authorities and Partners

Data

Regions

Contact Us

At present the site is under going restructuring. You can email us and will recieve a response in the near future.

Evaluation Survey

Site visitors were last surveyed online in the summer of 2009 to establish levels of satisfaction with the sites structure and content. You can view the results here.