Partnership Working

A costing template helps services in estimating the local cost of implementing guidelines and public health guidance. This template allows individual NHS organisations and local health economies to quickly assess the impact guidance will have on local budgets.

A video tutorial is available explaining how to use the costing templates in Windows Media Player and Quick Time format.

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG115/CostingTemplate/xls/English

This form can be used to conduct a baseline assessment of a trust's current activity in relation to the NICE guideline on Alcohol dependence. Current activity can be included along with actions needed to meet the recommendations and the trust lead. The table can be adapted to include any other local information that is felt to be useful. When identifying actions you should refer to the support tools provided by NICE including a costing statement, audit support and slide set.

http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13337/53218/53218.xls

The three year Alcohol Improvement Programme (AIP) was established in April 2008 by the Department of Health (DH) to help reduce alcohol related health and social harm.

This paper summarises the work carried out across the region to reduce alcohol related harm in the East of England between April 2008 and March 2011. It encompasses the key findings and learning from work taking place in the region. In addition, it provides a summary of how performance has been monitored, the tools and guidance available to assist local areas and a description of the networks and mechanisms (including QIPP) that have helped to support the work which has taken place.

The Alcohol Culture Exchange was a knowledge transfer collaboration between Dr James Nicholls (Bath Spa University) and the South West Alcohol Improvement Programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The project brought together over 100 practitioners, policymakers, service providers and academics to explore the links between drinking cultures, alcohol policy and the planning of service responses. This report from the project presents some of the key issues that emerged in the ACE workshop discussions and subsequent interviews. It also outlines the findings of current research in those areas and makes some suggestions as to how existing knowledge might be applied effectively at a local level.

This NICE quality standard defines clinical best practice within this topic area. It provides specific, concise quality statements, measures and audience descriptors to provide the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high-quality care.

To access document please click link below

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qualitystandards/alcoholdependence/home.jsp

This guide for commissioners provides support for the local implementation of NICE guidance through commissioning and is a resource to help commissioners, clinicians and managers to commission evidence based and quality services across England. This guide also aims to support joint commissioning and partnership working between NHS and partner organisations.

A report and supporting documentation, including projects and strategies, describing Intensive Support provided to 10 London Primary Care Trusts (PCT)/Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) Partnerships with outcomes.

"Local Alcohol Leads (LALs) face roadblocks in five areas and this is having an impact on the delivery of reductions in the rates of alcohol-related hospital admissions across London. LALs are not able to apply intensive resource to the solution of these issues, and some do not have direct experience in resolving these issues.

five areas were identified:

• Understanding local alcohol data and using it effectively to deliver reductions in alcohol related hospital admissions
• Implementing effective alcohol harm screening and referral protocols and mechanisms in acute settings
• Designing effective Alcohol Health Worker roles and the contexts in which the roles are set
• Designing and establishing effective Direct and Local Enhanced Services (DES/LES) and effective General Practice responses to alcohol related harm
• Setting up effective Emergency Department (ED) alcohol and violence data collection and sharing systems.

Joint guidance on the development of local protocols bewteen Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services. It is intended to help commissioners and providers to meet existing commitments by providing the latest information and highlighting good practice.