Slides by Dr Julia Sinclair, Dr Leonie Grellier, Clinical Leads, Reducing Harm from Alcohol Programme Wessex AHSN

1. Integrated Treatment
for ARLD: making it
happen
Dr Julia Sinclair
Dr Leonie Grellier,
Clinical Leads,
Reducing Harm from Alcohol
Programme

2. The Programme so far…
Launched in 2014
“To lead the way in developing a new paradigm for
how the health system manages the harms of
alcohol consumption on health, in order to improve
patient outcomes”

3. Focus
• Map the baseline
• Up skill the workforce
• Engaging with CCGs
• Developing a Brief Treatment Pathway
(Lundbeck)
• Working with Soberistas’
• Accelerator grant supporting work with Helen
Hamlyn Design Project

4. Successes: Mapping the Baseline
http://cisdata.co.uk

5. Successes: Soberistas’
Lucy Rocca – Founder
‘Soberistas’
Launched 2013
21K subscribers in the
first year
http://wessexahsn.org.uk/projects/38/our-work-with-soberistas

6. Successes: Soberistas
http://wessexahsn.org.uk/projects/38/our-work-with-soberistas
1. Sinclair JMA, Chambers SE, Manson CC (2016) Internet Support
for Dealing with Problematic Alcohol Use: A Survey of the
Soberistas Online Community. Alcohol and Alcoholism. doi:
10.1093/alcalc/agw078
2. Chambers SE, Canvin K, Baldwin DS, Sinclair JMA. Using online
mutual aid to address problematic alcohol consumption:
A qualitative study of identity transformation
(Drugs and Alcohol Dependence Jan2017)

7. Successes: Drink Informed Project

8. Challenges
• Low levels of alcohol specific health literacy in
the work force Know Your Numbers Training:
UHS training outcomes:
Staff able to correctly
estimate alcohol content
of drinks increased from
2.5% to 72.7%

9. Challenges
Who pays for
the health
costs of
alcohol?

10. 2016 Re-Focus
• Bringing together what we had learnt
• Refining the task
• Pathways for Alcohol Related Liver Disease

11. How we can improve patient pathways?
Acute admission liver disease data for 6 Wessex Acute Trusts: Wessex wide and specific
Trust packs
Packs sent to:
Acute Trust CEOs
CCG Leads
Trust Clinical Leads
For follow up and action
Request for all Trusts to complete
Your work is a fabulous
foundation for getting
conversations going
between us and the
trust
CCG Medical Director:

12. How we can improve patient pathways : Opportunities for
research and PPI
Alcohol-related Liver Disease
Platform of Clinical leads,
and research expertise to
apply for NIHR funding

13. And so today…..
• This Morning
• This Afternoon