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Reducing towards Alcohol H arms and Health I nequalities. Julia Miller . What is the Healthy Places, Healthy Lives Programme ?. Funded by DH – originally three years, but reduced to one! Partnered by LGID, NST, Marmot Started Jan 2010 – end ?
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Reducing towards Alcohol Harms and Health Inequalities. Julia Miller
What is the Healthy Places, Healthy Lives Programme? • Funded by DH – originally three years, but reduced to one! Partnered by LGID, NST, Marmot • Started Jan 2010 – end ? • Developing partnerships to reduce health inequalities • Implementing Marmot principles • 25 sites in England • Initiatives focus on teenage pregnancy, alcohol, obesity, community aspirations, CVD,diabetes, smoking, domestic abuse and more…
Why Alcohol? Alcohol related hospital admissions (wholly and partially attributable to alcohol) Outpatients, A&E, Ambulance GP consultations, practice nurse consultations Specialist treatment services Dependency services Impact on families £2.9 Health Offenders under the influence Young people committing criminal damage Vehicle-related thefts Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Domestic violence Fear of crime & impact on environment £8.0 Crime Employers Average employee absence (7.4 days per year) 11 million working days annually Sickness absence (17 million annually) Poor and underperforming £1.7 Not including estimated costs to the economy of alcohol-related deaths and unemployment
Infrastructure Development • Cementing partnerships • Think Tanks • Mapping alcohol services • Links to commissioning • Links into other local • strategies and Boards e.g. • Child Poverty, Community Safety • Local leadership & cementing • partnerships • Understanding the wider • determinants Alcohol Strategy: Isle of Wight, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Gt Yarmouth
City-wide Intelligence, Wolverhampton • Terms of Reference • Multiple stakeholder engagement • Linking data • Analyst expertise • Gaining buy-in across the City • Model to support other strategic work Benefits realisation, Gt Yarmouth & Waverney, Wolves • Economic modelling • Benefits realisation • Links to commissioning • Amenable mortality • Convincing commissioners
Summary of the evidence of the effectiveness of alcohol interventions Source: WHO, Evidence for the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm, 2009
Night Time Economy, ROI example: Keep It Safe, Wolverhampton Outline: • Increased police presence. • Voluntary ‘Street Pastors’ – street patrol and guidance. • ‘Safe Havens’ – alcohol free drinks, somewhere to wait, free call to taxi company. • Temporary medical centre (on the spot first aid) and triage ambulance to relieve A&E pressure. • Taxi enforcement officers to monitor unlicensed ‘plying for hire’ activities. • Multi-agency visits to licensed premises to ensure compliance with licensing and safety conditions. Impact (compared to same period, 2007/08): • 29% reduction in violent crime • 14% reduction in alcohol-related ambulance call-outs (28% reduction on New Year’s Eve) • 8% reduction in A&E attendances • 125 visits to licensed premises by enforcement officers (leading to 1 prosecution and 3 license reviews) • 12 taxi drivers were stopped for ‘plying for hire’, of which, 10 were prosecuted, enforcing the ‘get home safely’ message. • Fire Officers conducted 38 inspections across 24 premises. 23 required further action, relating to means of escape and insufficient fire risk assessments. Return on Investment: Total budget was £218,786. Cost analysis indicated total savings to the emergency services alone of £235,000. This shows strong ROI before Wider social determinates are factored in.
Cardiff Model Continual improvement and feedback
Scratch card scores • 3438 Scratch cards have been given out • 3322 Over the counter by pharmacies • 110 NHS Health checks (Chamber Health) • 3 Emergency Contraception • 3 Other • Details from Arrest Referral not yet available Scores above 5 could indicate that drinking levels are harmful or hazardous to health
Lessons Learned • Partnerships take a while to mature and bed in with regular meetings between stakeholders • The financial climate and the changing shift in staff has been problematic in some places • Some issues need to be solved at a national level egincentivisingthe delivery of IBAs
HPHL into 2011 • New sites joining • New Issues to discuss • Transforming Communities • Social return on investment • Raising Aspirations • NHS Institute is moving to Social Enterprise Model • We would welcome discussions with potential new sites!
More information • Website - www.institute.nhs.uk/commissioning/general/healthy_places_healthy_lives.html • Flyer - www.institute.nhs.uk/images/documents/Healthy%20Places%20Healthy%20Lives/62934%20NHS%20Healthy%20Places%20A5%20flyer.pdf • juliamiller@nhs.net HPHL Alcohol Lead 07903 218321