Health Committee - First Report
Alcohol
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 December 2009.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
Terminology used in this report
1 Introduction
2 History
From the seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth
From the 1960s to the present day
Conclusions and recommendations
3 The impact of alcohol on health, the NHS and society
The impact of alcohol on health
Mental health
The health of others
Mortality and disease
Risk
The impact of alcohol on the NHS
Accident and Emergency Departments and the Ambulance Service
Hospital admissions
Liver services
Overall costs to the NHS
The overall cost of alcohol to society
Conclusions
4 The Government's strategy
5 NHS policies to address alcohol related problems
The state of alcohol services
Primary care services
Specialist alcohol treatment services
Hospital based services managing alcohol related harm
How to improve the situation
Prevention
Bridge Funding for commissioners
Improve treatment of specialist alcohol services
Improve the management of alcohol-related harm
The new National Plan for Liver Services
Conclusions and recommendations
6 Education and information policies
Conclusions and recommendations
7 Marketing and the drinks industry
Regulatory codes
The views of supporters of the existing regulatory regime
Targeting young people
Effect on sales
The views of health experts
Advertising, promotion and young people
Analysis of marketing documents of drinks' industry and their advertising, new media and PR companies
Policy options
More effective controls
Conclusions and recommendations
8 Licensing, binge-drinking, crime and disorder
The Alcohol Strategy's measures to address alcohol-related crime and disorder and the Licensing Act 2003
The voluntary Social Responsibility Standards 2005
Changes following the 2007 Alcohol Strategy
Schemes to reduce alcohol harms experienced by under 18s
Policing and Crime Act 2009
Continued weaknesses in the licensing regime
Selling alcohol to a person who is drunk
Licensing and public health
Conclusions and recommendations
9 Supermarkets and off-licence sales
Changing patterns of purchasing
Problems of the increasing cheapness and availability of alcohol
Availability and density of outlets
Aggressive promotions by supermarkets
Conclusions and recommendations
10 Prices: taxes and minimum prices
The laws of supply and demand
Effect of price rises on the heaviest drinkers
Price changes and harm
The effect of a decline in average consumption on heavy drinkers
Higher prices are unfair on moderate drinkers and lower income groups
Minimum pricing or rises in duty
Rises in duty
Conclusions and recommendations
11 Solutions: a new strategy
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of further written evidence
List of unprinted evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the
current Parliament
Oral and Written Evidence
Thursday 23 April 2009
Thursday 7 May 2009
Thursday 14 May 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Thursday 16 July 2009
Thursday 15 October 2009
Written Evidence
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