Alcohol Harm Data

There are a number of data sources and guidance documents, designed to be supportive of JSNA and commissioning of alcohol interventions.

'Signs for Improvement -commissioning interventions to reduce alcohol-realted harm' provides guidance and evidence in the context of world class commissioning and many of the data resources listed below.

Data Tools for Commissioning including the DH Alcohol 'Ready Reckoner'

Presentations from the Turning Data into Intelligence Conference 2nd-3rd June 2009

Data Templates for GP's

The North West Public Health Observatory

The NWPHO website holds the following datasets:

Local Alcohol Profiles for England - Latest Figures Updated October 2009

A Web based resource to support Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. The North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO) has produced the first local alcohol profiles set covering a range of indicators ranging from binge drinking levels, through specific alcohol related diseases and alcohol related hospital admissions to crime attributable to alcohol, including violent crime and sexual offences.

Alcohol-related admissions trends data

DH provides quarterly and annual admissions trend data for every PCT against each of the conditions which are significantly (>20%) attributable to alcohol. These data will indicate existing trends in alcohol related ill-health for every PCT and provide a baseline against which PCTs can measure delivery of the indicator.

Alcohol-attributable fractions for England

• Alcohol-attributable fractions for England (Alcohol-attributable mortality and hospital admissions)
  In England, alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) are annually applied to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and mortality data by the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO) to provide an indication...

Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project

Provides a comprehensive national picture of alcohol related needs and availability of treatment . There is considerable variation in the level of service availability for people with alcohol problems across the country that bears little relation to the variation in need within different regions. Overall, only 5.6% of the in-need population access alcohol treatment per annum. This is generally regarded as a very low level of service capacity.The Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP) is the first alcohol needs assessment in England conducted on a national scale. You can search the complete list of 696 community, residential/inpatient alcohol treatment services, using a regional map.

• Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP)
  The Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP) is the first alcohol needs assessment in England conducted on a national scale.

Regional Indications Report for the Chief Medical Officer

• Indications of Public Health in the English Regions: Alcohol Executive Summary
  This document provides detailed data on alcohol harm by regional basis and is a valuable resource for Directors of Public Health who have a key role to play as leaders in identifying health and social...

Other JSNA and Commissioning Data

Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MoCAM)

Sets out best practice guidance for commissioning and delivering a planned and integrated local system of alcohol interventions. MoCAM provides a 4 tiered framework for planning alcohol interventions. By mapping existing services available in an area against the 4 tiers detailed in MoCAM, gaps in both the range of interventions required and the level of service capacity available can be compared with the levels of locally identified need.

• Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MoCAM)
  Models of care for alcohol misusers (MoCAM) provides best practice guidance for local health organisations and their partners in delivering a planned and integrated local treatment system for adult alcohol...

Review of the effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems

This review is a critical appraisal of the evidence base for the treatments available for people with alcohol problems. The review covers interventions ranging from simple advice and mutual aid to intensive specialist treatment. It was written to inform Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MoCAM). [Source: DH website]

• Review of the effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems
  This review covers the published international research literature on alcohol interventions and treatment. In describing the effectiveness of the various interventions and treatments available it will...

The Hub of Commissioned Alcohol Practice and Policies (HubCAPP) - a continually developing database of current practice being undertaken to reduce alcohol harm. The database provides commissioners with examples of both proven and innovative practice and the local policy levers which brought them into being. As initiatives mature Will, over time, show the efficacy of initiatives so that they can be emulated elsewhere.

• Visit our HubCAPP pages

Alcohol Statistics

Statistics on Alcohol 2009: England

• Alcohol Statistics 2009
  This statistical report and accompanying tables present a range of information on alcohol use and misuse which are drawn together from a variety of published sources and includes additional analysis...

NHS Information Centre Statistics on Alcohol

Older statistical reports and Neighbourhood Statistics (NESS) can be viewed on the NHS Information Health and Wellbeing pages .

Hospital Episode Statistics

HES Online is the national statistical data warehouse for England of the are provided by NHS hospitals and for NHS hospital patients treated elsewhere. You can register for an account and create tailor made reports and tables using the HES data.