Local projects have been submitted from around the United Kingdom from a range of different organisations. The aim of the local projects is to share what is being done to improve health in the community. This section has not been peer reviewed and the BMJ Group makes no guarantee about the accuracy of the information supplied. For more information contact the organiser of the local project directly. For our full website terms and conditions please click here.
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| Description |
Identifying children with problematic alcohol and/or drug use and establishing a care pathway and referral service. |
| Setting |
The A&E department of a hospital. |
| Population |
Young people aged between 0-16 years in A&E. |
| Intervention |
Providing an information pack of resources on drug, alcohol and sexual health issues, offering brief interventions and screening
on alcohol misuse with a view to referral on to outside support services.
|
| Main Outcome |
Early identification of young people with alcohol related issues. Reduction in risk taking behaviour. |
| Cost |
Start-up - The project was launched on a ‘shoe string’, costing around £7000 over two years but with a considerable amount of help and
support from the local medical staff. If the project is found to be viable, then funding should be mainstreamed.; Running costs - £3500 each year; Total -
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| Contact Email |
kim.williams@rlc.nhs.uk |
| Description |
A multifaceted project aimed at reducing binge drinking and its negative impacts |
| Setting |
Blackpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) |
| Population |
Teenagers and people aged up to 44 who are binge drinking or drinking harmfully |
| Intervention |
Various interventions (including distributing merchandise in pubs and clubs) to encourage drinkers to alternate their alcohol
drinks with non-alcoholic drinks or alternate the days on which they drink to give their liver time to recover.
|
| Main Outcome |
Too early to say |
| Cost |
Start-up - £8000; Running costs - The project costs £20 000 annually including all marketing costs and delivery.; Total - |
| Contact Email |
ian.treasure@blackpoolpct.nhs.uk |
| Description |
A branding that will be easily recognised and associated with health messages by agencies and the public. |
| Setting |
Blackpool |
| Population |
Population within the areas of highest deprivation across Blackpool. |
| Intervention |
All relevant publications are branded with LIFE campaign and logo. The logo is regularly used on promotional messages and
other media tools and also for healthy vending machines in public buildings and schools.
|
| Main Outcome |
Take-up in services and health promoting activities such as stopping smoking or an increase in participation in physical activity. |
| Cost |
Start-up - Start up costs: £25 000. Annual running costs: £5000-10 000.; Running costs - £5000-10 000; Total - |
| Contact Email |
brenda.marshall@blackpoolpct.nhs.uk |
| Description |
GPs, practice staff and A&E staff are trained on how to implement brief interventions in primary care. |
| Setting |
General practices and A&E departments |
| Population |
Patients with alcohol problems from 56 practices and two A&E departments. |
| Intervention |
Training provided for GPs, practice staff and A&E staff on how to use the identified screening tool and how to implement brief
interventions within a primary care setting.
|
| Main Outcome |
120 people accessed the training in the first year. |
| Cost |
Start-up - ; Running costs - Year 1 = £19 000 Year 2 = £18 445 Total costs of the two year project = £37 445; Total - |
| Contact Email |
info@cadas.co.uk |
| Description |
Offers support to substance misusers, the mentally ill and socially isolated people |
| Setting |
Day centre |
| Population |
Homeless and otherwise marginalised adults over 18 years of age |
| Intervention |
Offers cooked meals, showers, haircuts and clothing |
| Main Outcome |
Increase in clients moving to settled housing, rehabilitation centres and the labour market |
| Cost |
Start-up - To equip the centre, the cost is perhaps £150,000; Running costs - £150 000 so far (and rising). Without the volunteers the costs would be at least double.; Total - |
| Contact Email |
jackie.walsh@ccrsorg.co.uk |
| Description |
Delivers alcohol interventions within the criminal justice system |
| Setting |
Various settings within the criminal justice system, such as custody suites |
| Population |
Adults with alcohol misuse problems who come into contact with the criminal justice system |
| Intervention |
Alcohol misuse workers deliver brief interventions and access to more intensive, structured treatment interventions |
| Main Outcome |
Increased number of 18-35 year olds accessing alcohol treatment services, and a low incidence of re-offending in people who
have accessed the scheme.
|
| Cost |
Start-up - The start up costs covered recruitment of workers and production of publicity materials for the scheme (approximately £5000).; Running costs - It costs approximately £70 000 each year in staffing and resources to operate.; Total - |
| Contact Email |
katrina.stephens@salford.gov.uk |
| Description |
A range of initiatives to provide education on the dangers of irresponsible drinking made by young people for young people. |
| Setting |
Secondary schools and youth organisations. |
| Population |
Young people between the ages of 13 to 16 years. |
| Intervention |
A film and a teacher-support pack on the dangers of irresponsible drinking are distributed to every secondary school and youth
organisation in Liverpool.
|
| Main Outcome |
Increase of knowledge and awareness of the consequences of binge drinking and the alternative life choices available to young
people.
|
| Cost |
Start-up - £65 000; Running costs - Continuing Professional Development training for teachers and youth workers are the only on-going costs. The resource, once
purchased by schools or youth associations, has no on-going cost implication.; Total -
|
| Contact Email |
Gaynor.wright@liverpool.gov.uk |
| Description |
Offering alcohol treatment, as part of an offender’s punishment, to offenders who show alcohol dependency. |
| Setting |
Community Justice Centre |
| Population |
Offenders who are dependent on alcohol |
| Intervention |
Various alcohol treatment modalities including one to one care planned counselling; community detoxification; in patient detoxification;
and structured day care.
|
| Main Outcome |
Include numbers of offenders suitable for an Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR), number of treatment modalities given, numbers
who have complied with the ATR, and numbers of re-arrests/reconvictions in comparison with their offending behaviour in the
previous 12 months.
|
| Cost |
Start-up - £60 000; Running costs - Total cost of the pilot scheme is £60 000.; Total - |
| Contact Email |
Sue.brown@merseyside.probation.gsi.gov.uk |
| Description |
The project aims to promote responsible drinking and a responsible drinking culture across Manchester. |
| Setting |
Pubs, clubs, bars, off-licences, convenience stores, supermarkets and workplace settings, including schools, Primary Care
Trusts (PCTs), the hospitality sector and the private sector.
|
| Population |
On and off licence staff focusing on women, older people and 18-25 year olds. |
| Intervention |
Training in responsible alcohol retailing, publicity campaigns, production of educational booklets, an electronic fact file,
alcohol training for people working in non-specialist settings, a radio campaign, and campaigns in workplace settings.
|
| Main Outcome |
Three thousand copies of “Calling Time: helpful advice for staff" distributed to alcohol retail staff and used as a training
tool by operators. Eighty six of 109 free places filled on a responsible alcohol retailing course. Sixteen of 60 subsidised
places filled on the responsible alcohol retailing course.
|
| Cost |
Start-up - ; Running costs - £47 000 to include salary, on-costs, management, travel, promotion and publicity; Total - |
| Contact Email |
elizabeth.burns@manchester.nhs.uk |
| Description |
A structured alcohol service to detect and treat alcohol misuse. |
| Setting |
Primary care |
| Population |
Any person over age of 18 who has difficulty with alcohol misuse. This may be a hazardous, harmful or dependant drinker. |
| Intervention |
Training for primary care staff in the use of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C),
brief interventions and referral to Wansbeck Alcohol Project for more intensive brief interventions and home detox. We also
offer counselling, therapies and an alcohol support group.
|
| Main Outcome |
Reduction in alcohol use. |
| Cost |
Start-up - £83 000; Running costs - £83 000 for 10 months; Total - |
| Contact Email |
Duncan.Leith@gp-a84025.nhs.uk |
