Community Safety Partnerships in Lancashire are joining up to form an alcohol strategy that covers five boroughs across the region, according to a report in the Lancashire Telegraph. The non-executive director of East Lancs PCT, Ian Clements, who will chair the strategy steering group, said:
We have all agreed that taking action to reduce the harm caused by alcohol should be a priority as part of a wider health inequalities plan to save a million years of life by 2011.
We have realised that across East Lancashire the majority of problems we face in relation to alcohol are broadly similar and we therefore need to pool our resources to drive forward collectively.
The more regional approach will be followed closely - it's more usual for boroughs or districts adopt their own local alcohol strategies. However last year's updated national strategy Safe. Sensible. Social outlined that regional Government Offices would have more responsibility to support local strategies.
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