The Alcohol Special Interest Group is chaired by John Mooney: john.mooney3@nhs.scot and reports to the Faculty's Health Improvement Committee.
In 2021 the SIG commented on and endorsed the SHAAP NCD Report.
In 2020 the SIG responded to the Alcohol Health Alliance consultation on alcohol harm in the UK. The Faculty's submission can be found here.
Resources
- Realising Our Rights: How to protect people from alcohol marketing - A report by the Alcohol Marketing Expert Network, June 2022
- Contents unknown: How alcohol labelling still fails consumers - A report by the Alcohol Health Alliance
- The Four Steps to Alcohol Misuse: How the industry uses price, place, promotion and product design to persuade us that too much alcohol is not enough - A report by Alcohol Focus Scotland; Scotland Health Action on Alcohol Problems; Balance, the North East Alcohol Office and engagement and empowerment specialists Our Life, November 2011
- Assessing the feasibility of using place-based health information in alcohol licensing: case studies from seven local authorities in England - pdf available on request