City of London Corporation - Christmas Campaign 2018
#EatPacePlan Christmas Toolkit.
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📎: Rethink your drink scratchcard: https://t.co/esUMgAtrhH
Interview with a CHI 2019 Melbourne speaker
dr Ingrid van Beek (Australia) will chair "Challenges in establishing supervised injecting rooms" session
Full video https://t.co/vnL2unSQus
CHI programme https://t.co/TY7lTGpJDD
#CHI19
As many have noted, deep cuts to public health each year continue.
And while I welcome any support for people with alcohol problems, this funding will do nothing to prevent alcohol problems developing. We are a *long* way from having effective alcohol policy
Is it really Tinder, Netflix and the cost of door staff? Or is it cheap off-licence alcohol?
Dating apps and Netflix responsible for fall in 24-hour alcohol licences, new research suggests https://t.co/Ly9GMU43i3 via @telegraphnews
Ministers press ahead with 50p minimum unit price for alcohol in Wales
The Welsh Government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol in Wales following a public consultation.
https://t.co/doeQtpxe9i
Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Every woman and girl should be safe and feel safe wherever they are in London, and we will continue our fight to end this abhorrent, illegal practice with every power we have. https://t.co/5zLNnoDYn8
Today 55 health organisations, including Alcohol Change UK, are calling for public health funding to be a priority in the Spending Review. "Since 2014/15, the Government has cut council public health budgets by £700 million..." (1/3)
Scotland has published the first guidelines in the UK for diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Learn more about how the guideline was developed and why it is needed in this post from @alcoholpolicyuk.
NEW article on how the impact of alcohol licensing work is hard to measure, posing challenges for justifying it amid budget cuts. Yet there is "potential added value" in the "strategic positioning of public health in local government" to influence wider determinants of health.
"Minimum pricing six months on: too soon to tell?" @jamesmorris24 takes us through the first briefing from @NHS_HS on #MUP for @alcoholpolicyuk
https://t.co/zdbUtcGWFg
Good to see this research - but I thought we’d largely put this one to bed. Maybe some research into how to get policy makers to listen to the evidence would be useful.
In England, there appears to be an association between higher densities of alcohol outlets and higher hospital admission rates for conditions wholly attributable to alcohol consumption.
https://t.co/M32g5aGKBn
Thanks Matthew at @SSLP1 for name-checking us at the #LAPDF event today. Both our @dontbottleitup_ and @DrinkCoach services show our commitment to the belief that online IBA can reach the parts that other #IBA doesn't.