The Licensing Act 2003 siginificantly reformed liquor licensing in England and Wales. It transferred responsibility for licensing from licensing magistrates to local authorities and removed restrictions on hours of sale, allowing in theory 24 hour opening.
What difference will the Act make to the nature and level of harm associated with drinking, and how will any changes by measured? Local authorities need to know, so they can monitor the effectiveness of their licensing policies. How will they do it?
The second Alcohol Policy UK podcast features:
- research into alcohol-related presentions to accident and emergency wards before and after the Act - we have an interview with research leader Bob Patton, Health Service Research Coordinator at the National Addiction Centre
- research from Hackney into a core dataset for monitoring the impact of the council's licensing policy and alcohol-related harm in general
Further information
Information about the Licensing Act 2003, here
British Association for Emergency Medicine (BAEM)
More information about Bob's reseach here
Alcohol Concern/AERC Licensing Toolkit here
Information about Hackney scrutiny research here
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