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Harmful drinking

Guidance and regulation

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  • Guidance from the Chief Medical Officer for healthcare professionals on safe alcohol consumption for children and young people.

  • Supporting the alcohol and retail industries to market their products responsibly, with the aim of protecting the public and informing consumers.

  • A professional resource for local authorities and commissioners on preventing and ending rough sleeping.

  • Information for NHS and public health professionals focusing on the life course approach which aims to give people fairer life chances.

  • Annual guidance on smoking, drinking and drug misuse for commissioners of tobacco control, drug and alcohol services for adults and young people.

  • Guidance and tools to help plan and improve local alcohol systems, services and interventions to reduce alcohol harm, using the CLeaR approach.

  • Information about a new funding grant to local councils to help them improve housing support for people in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery.

  • Public health teams make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities.

  • A tool to help local areas carry out a self-assessment to improve the continuity of care for people leaving prison who need alcohol and drug treatment.

  • Guidance on screening and providing brief advice for alcohol and tobacco use in inpatient settings.

  • A statement from the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC).

  • Report on the findings from brief interventions for excessive drinking in prisons, as part of the gateways initiative.

  • Quality governance guidance for local commissioners of alcohol and drug services.

  • Guidance about the benefits of involving service users in planning and improving substance misuse treatment.

  • PHE NW Education, Training and Employment (ETE) forum advise on considerations for ETE support for clients in drug and alcohol treatment.

  • This report sets out estimates of the relative risks of alcohol on disease, as well as alcohol-attributable fractions for England.

  • Resource for commissioners, providers and clinicians to identify the essential functions of addiction specialist doctors in recovery oriented treatment.

  • Guidance on referring alcohol dependent patients from hospital to specialist alcohol treatment in the hospital or in the community.

  • This resource makes the case for why NHS providers should implement the 'Screening and brief advice for tobacco and alcohol use in inpatient settings' CQUIN.

  • Advice for public health teams when reviewing their local statement of licensing policy for alcohol.