A number of tools and documents have been released by the Department of Health's Alcohol Learning Centre (ALC) to assist commissioners predict the likely impact of increasing alcohol interventions and treatment. The tools 'can be used by commissioners as an aid for needs assessment, treatment capacity, service impact and planning your responses in local alcohol service delivery.'
The main tool is the Ready Reckoner v1 which generates data to identify the potential impact of increasing alcohol interventions and treatment for local PCTs. By selecting your PCT and entering possible increased provision (in the yellow boxes), the tool will calculate the costs, potential cost savings and predicted impact on hospital admissions. The ready reckoner calculates the possible impact of increasing High Impact Change interventions of A&E nurse specialists, hospital ward Alcohol Health Workers, Primary Care brief interventions and psychosocial interventions for dependent drinkers. A guidance document for using the tool is available.
The ALC have also highlighted the Rush report as a resource to assist commissioners in assessing the need for treatment capacity.
Information on the Purple Report is also available, whereby commissioners can access alcohol data collected from local treatment services via NDTMS.
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