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Key Issues for the Alcohol Treatment Practitioner. Eric Appleby Alcohol Concern June 2013. Key issues. Thinking Drinking Linking systems. New Landscape. Public health transfer CCGs PHE Alcohol/Drugs Aggressive/subtle alcohol industry. The figures. 8,700 deaths
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Key Issues for theAlcohol Treatment Practitioner Eric Appleby Alcohol Concern June 2013
Key issues • Thinking • Drinking • Linking systems
New Landscape • Public health transfer • CCGs • PHE • Alcohol/Drugs • Aggressive/subtle alcohol industry
The figures • 8,700 deaths • 1.2m hospital admissions • 117% increase in under 30 liver admissions • 150% increase in over 60s mental health admissions • 90,000 drink drive convictions • 3.4m children live with heavy drinking parents • 1 in 16 of those in need are in services
Local authority landscape • Licensing • Children & Families • Elderly care • Youth services • Environment • Workforce • Third sector • Private sector
Back to the Future? • Councils on Alcohol • All aspects • Local relationship with alcohol • Impact? • Overtaken by • Health promotion • Contracts • Purchaser/provider/commissioners
Now…. • Quality • Evidence (NICE) • New treatment settings/styles • New technology • GAS
WHAT!!? Population approach
Widening scope • JSNA Audit • Impact of transfer on services • IBA • and other conditions • in non-medical settings • Training professionals • Care pathways • Linking services
Widening understanding • ‘Hard to engage’ clients • Young people’s voices • Middle aged, middle class • Workplace • New alliances
Conversations • Guide for Councillors • AAW • Dry January
Key issues • Have real conversations • Put your work in context • Highlight the continuum • Challenge the industry • Challenge easy myths and assumptions • Quote the figures