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Promoting Safer Drinking: Insights from NHS North Yorkshire

George Lee, Senior Commissioning Manager, provides NHS perspective on alcohol risks, health impacts, and local issues in Harrogate and District. Explore aspirations for future alcohol policies and healthcare priorities.

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Promoting Safer Drinking: Insights from NHS North Yorkshire

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  1. NHS North Yorkshire and York • Safer and Sensible Drinking and Promoting Health and Wellbeing George Lee: Senior Commissioning Manager

  2. Aims of this Presentation • Offer an NHS perspective on the risks of over drinking, or the misuse of alcohol • Highlight some of the general impacts on health and local issues for Harrogate and District. • Aspirations for the future, what

  3. Alcohol and The NHS Perspective • Recognition that the greater the level of exposure to alcohol over a life time, the greater the risks of ill health and associated personal and societal harms • Alcohol related hospital admissions are increasing • The costs of providing treatment are increasing, and are not sustainable

  4. How big is the issue? 153,000 drinking above low risk 29,300 drinking at harmful levels 16,200 dependent drinkers

  5. Hospital Admissions

  6. Attributable Fractions mainly chronic degenerative conditions in which alcohol is associated with a relatively modest increase in risk, such that overall less than 20% of cases are estimated to be attributable to alcohol • Malignant neoplasm of breast • Malignant neoplasm of colon • Malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile ducts • Malignant neoplasm of rectum • Heart failure • Haemorrhagic stroke

  7. Local Issues • Alcohol Hospital Specific Admissions under 18s • Alcohol Hospital Specific Admissions females • Hazardous drinking (synthetic estimate) • Binge drinking (synthetic estimate)

  8. NHS Priorities • Work with partners to promote safer drinking • Extend treatment provision for Tiers 1,2 and 3 • Identification and brief advice in primary care • A and E workers • Health liaison worker in hospitals

  9. Stepped Care Pathway

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