Alcohol strategy action planning workshop 1: information for participants The first of the alcoholpolicy.net/LDAN alcohol strategy action planning workshops takes place from 2 to 4.30pm on Wednesday 21st February.
Please note this will be a Powerpoint-free zone, and is geared towards practical guidance and dicsussion rather than pontification.
Participants are invited to do three things in advance of the workshop:
- leave a comment here on the website (see the end of this post) or email us to say what you particularly want the workshop to cover
- if you want copies of the key documents we will be discussing, bring along a USB stick
- if you would like to hear the Alcohol Policy UK podcast songs, bring along a portable fmradio (go with me on this one, it will be lovely)
Outline of the workshop: improving alcohol treatment in the real world
needs assessments tools – making life easy
- ANARP – regional rates for dependent and hazardous drinking and service utilisation rates
- NWPHO – health and crime measures, and applying the Taking Measures approach to hospital admissions data
- Local lifestyle surveys
- Other local data
government guidance: what we’re supposed to be doing
- Implementing a local programme of improvement - getting the balance of treatment right for hazardous and dependent drinkers
- MOCAM - how the pieces fit together
- Effectiveness review - best practice in alcohol treatment
getting alcohol treatment on the local decision-makers’ radar
- Strategic frameworks at local and regional level
- Targets that talk
- Recruiting champions
- Local issues – pressing the right buttons
- Going to meetings and saying ‘what about alcohol?’
tapping into local resources: what’s there; what’s possible
- PTB
- £15M
- mainstream health and social care budgets
- NRF
- Community safety
- Other LAA funding streams
- Charitable grants
key local players you need to engage
- Councillors
- Public health
- Senior stakeholders
- Service users
- MPs
- DAT
what to do next
- guidance on next steps
- network of practitioners
