News Release - 60,000 new doctors will target problem drinkers Friday 14 March 2008
Department of Health (National)
Sixty thousand new doctors will be specifically trained in the next ten years to identify and treat people who are drinking too much, Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo will announce today.
Medical schools have been allocated £650,000 to do a scoping exercise next financial year to see how alcohol misuse training can be added to the curriculum.
The findings will enable a first tranche of medical schools to make the necessary changes - and test them - before full roll out. Within three years, every medical school in the country will have alcohol training on the curriculum.
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