Alcohol Care Teams: to reduce acute hospital admissions and improve quality of care

"The principal component of this initiative is for a multidisciplinary Alcohol care team in each district hospital, led by a consultant with designated sessions, who will collaborate across hospitals and primary care, to develop a coordinated alcohol treatment and prevention programme. This team would organise systematic interventions and alcohol specialist nurses."

Alcohol Care Teams: to reduce acute hospital admissions and improve quality of care (Quality and Productivity case study)
The British Society of Gastroenterology and the Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NICE
March 2016

Read more here.

Improving safety through the establishment of a Hospital Alcohol Liaison Service

"The message to others is to ensure that in establishing a new service, this should be done with complete staff engagement in respect to understanding the direct effect of service change on creating a positive patients pathway with sustained positive clinical outcomes. The frontline workforce are key in delivering changes, therefore it is imperative that they are fully involved in the process."

Improving safety - through the establishment of a Hospital Alcohol Liaison Service (HALS), alongside the launch of a therapeutic Chlordiazepoxide prescribing Detoxification Regime
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Shared learning example
January 2015

Read more here.

NICE Alcohol return on investment tool

"The alcohol use return on investment tool has been developed to help decision making on interventions and strategies to prevent and reduce alcohol use at local and sub-national levels."

Alcohol return on investment tool

Public Health ROI Tool

NICE

September 2014

Access the tool and all the resources here.

Alcohol care teams: reducing acute hospital admissions and improving quality of care

This QIPP case study recently won a BMJ Award.

Quality and Productivity: Proven case study: alcohol care teams: reducing acute hospital admissions and improving quality of care 
The British Society of Gastroenterology and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Updated May 2014

Read more here.

Making recovery a reality in your community

"Building recovery in your local community should be a focus for local strategies both because it is the right thing to do and because it is smart and cost effective commissioning."

Making recovery a reality in your community: a briefing for commissioners of mental health, drug and alcohol services
Alcohol Concern, DrugScope, Centre for Mental Health
August 2013

Read more here.