Primary Care

Alcohol Improvement Programme

The Department of Health through the Alcohol Improvement Programme and the Alcohol Learning Centre has put in place a number of initiatives to assist the PCT's with taking action to reduce alcohol-related harm. These include Data and Planning, support and the sharing of learning. To see more view:

• Supporting the NHS and Local Authorities
• Alcohol Improvement Programme
• Data Tools for Commissioners
• GP Templates and DES

Identification and Brief Advice for Primary Care

The SIPS identification and brief advice (IBA) toolkit which includes screening, intervention and training tools can be accessed from the Identification and Brief Advice Tools section.

• Free IBA e-Learning
• Other IBA tools
• Training
• Workforce Development
• Commissioning IBA

The DH Alcohol team have also prepared some IBA presentations utilising the IBA tools for use in Primary Care which you may access below:

• NHS Care and Alcohol v3
  This presentation provides information on the risks and costs of alcohol harm to the NHS and Primary Care and includes guidance on IBA tools, case identification, evidence and the new read codes. (DH,...

Primary Care Commissioning

• NHS Primary Care Commissioning (PCC) has an alcohol framework section with guidance
• You can access the GP system templates, and DES Guidance on our Commissioning/Data Tools pages.

Primary care commissioners and providers should read the supportive statements before using all or parts of these framework documents in any planning, commissioning, and implementation process in primary care.

• Primary Care Framework support statements

Resources

• Primary Care Service Framework Alcohol
  This document provides examples of good practice around alcohol services in primary care and can be adapted and used as a basis for an enhanced service via a schedule within a local primary care contract...
• Alcohol Care Pathway
  This flow chart, which accompanies the Primary Care Framework for Alcohol, provides a visual overview of the nature and anticipated course of treatment and support for an individual.
• Alcohol Care Pathway with Read Codes
• Clinical Directed Enhanced Services (DES) for GMS Contract 2008/09: Guidance and Audit Requirements
  This document provides primary care trusts and practices with updated information to help support the implementation of the new DESs, in particular on the requirements in the DESs for audits. It supercedes...
• 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...

NHS Operating Framework and Vital Signs

Vital Signs have been developed by the Department of Health across a range of services to encourage and enable partnership working between the PCT and our partners such as the Local Authorities to deliver joint outcomes through the local area agreements (LAAs) and PCT operational plans.

• Revised NHS Operating Framework 2010/11
• More on Vital Signs

• Vital Signs Operational Plans
  This planning guidance explains how organisations can use the Vital Signs to develop local operational plans to deliver against national priorities and how to select - or even create - local priorities....