Hospital admissions for alcohol related harm: key guidance and tools released

Following the publication of new data on alcohol-related admissions, a number of supporting documents and tools have been released to help the monitoring and delivery of work to reduce the admissions, as measured by National Indicator 39. This guidance will be especially welcomed by partnerships trying to reduce hospital admissions through Local Area Agreements, who have previously had limited information or guidance on how to address the complex and challenging realm of alcohol related admissions.

Key documents include Hospital definitions for alcohol related harm which provides technical information and definitions for the Vital Signs and National Indicator 39, as well more general guidance in Hospital admissions for alcohol related harm: understanding the dataset.

Also published is the most recent review of the relationships between alcohol consumption and related harms in Alcohol attributable fractions for England. The report calculates alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) and presents new AAFs specific to England based on the most recent population estimates of alcohol consumption data in England.  It also states that there are a significant proportion of avoidable deaths and hospital admissions attributable to alcohol consumption each year, particularly in young people.  The report suggests the figures presented are still likely to be an underestimation of the harm attributable to alcohol consumption in England.

Comments

[James Morris]

Hi Phil,if you click on any of the blue hihglighted words this should link you to the right place.

Also we are happy to have a quick look at strategies, get in touch to discuss with us. Your performance management framework sounds interesting and like good practice.

[Philip Alsford]

Re Alcohol related admissions.

In your article 30/7 you mentioned that there are a number of supporting documents and tools to help the monitoring and delivery of work to reduce alcohol admissions. Would it be possible for you to let me know how I can gain access to this information?

Secondly I have drafted our local Alcohol Harm Reduction strategy, do you offer advice and guidance on strategies drawn up, identifying obvioous gaps?

We do have a local delivery document and a performance mangt system to monitor the effectiveness of our delivery plan.

Regards,

Philip