Regional Documents

The Big Opportunity- Prevention: never more important than now

In March 2010 the Regional Director of Public Health for Yorkshire and the Humber published a report entitled 'The Big Opportunity - prevention: never more important than now' which includes regional alcohol actions and recommendations. Please click on the link below to download the report:

• The Big Opportunity

Healthy Ambitions

Healthy Ambitions is the regional report from the NHS Next Stage Review and sets out the strategic vision for the NHS in our region. The Staying Healthy pathway includes recommendations for action on alcohol agreed by senior clinicians in the region. The recommendations are to:

• Industrialise' screening and brief interventions in the NHS - and other front line settings.

Improve screening and identification of people with alcohol use problems. Commission the systematic use of brief interventions across NHS services and into other public sector services.

• Commission a range of specialist alcohol treatment services

Commission a range of 'tiered' services and ensure simple referral routes are accessible from screening points. Services to be commissioned separately from drugs misuse services - and 'decoupled' from national funding streams.

• Address availability and low cost of alcohol

NHS and other organisations to work together to reduce the accessibility of alcohol, including an increase in its price.

• Healthy Ambitions - Staying Healthy

Over the Limit