Very long faces in the West Country this week. Despite much pressure from the health lobby, Alistair Darling has chosen to ignore calls for minimum pricing of alcohol, and instead has imposed a hefty tax hike on cider. In Wednesday’s Budget statement, the Chancellor announced a duty increase of 10% above inflation for cider compared [...]
Posts Tagged ‘minimum pricing’
Minimum pricing of alcohol v alcohol tax
Posted in Alcohol, tagged Alcohol, alcohol tax, Binge drinking, Cider, CMO, minimum pricing, Sheffield University on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
FPH’s call for minimum price for alcohol recognised in CMO Annual Report 2009
Posted in Alcohol, Climate change, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, Climate change, CMO Annual Report, manifesto, minimum pricing on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer has published his Annual Report 2009 this week. In the report the CMO highlights the key areas of public health requiring action and looks at progress made since previous annual reports. One issue that he reflects on is the damage caused by “passive” drinking and the recommendation he [...]
Mapping the way we drink
Posted in Alcohol, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, Elizabeth Fuller, Emilia Crighton, Eric Stark, Gill Valentine, James Kneale, minimum pricing, Royal Geographical Society, Sarah Holloway on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If home is an English(wo)man’s castle, it seems it’s now also his and her local. Until now homes have been uncharted territory for studies of where, why and how people drink. But at the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Drinking Spaces and Places’ seminar on Britons’ drinking habits in town centres and rural communities, parks and pubs, [...]
“Alcohol measures do not go far enough”
Posted in Alcohol, Health Protection, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, minimum pricing, Scotland on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Dr Emilia Crighton, chair of the Scottish committee of the Faculty of Public Health. So the government has decided to bring in a ban on pub and club drinking promotions that encourage people to drink fast and furiously. Licensees will face fines of up to £20,000 or face a prison sentence, under this new [...]
12 Steps to Better Public Health
Posted in Alcohol, Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged 20mph, Alcohol, chlamydia, cycling, election, Food, manifesto, minimum pricing, Obesity, olympics, organ donation, public health, school meals, smoking, The Guardian, Tobacco, transfats on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Faculty of Public Health today publishes our joint manifesto on public health, alongside the Royal Society of Public Health. 12 Steps to Better Public Health offers a dozen practical recommendations that, if adopted by the next government, will improve the UK’s health and well-being for the new decade. The joint public health manifesto calls for: [...]
60p per unit for alcohol- public health specialists
Posted in Alcohol, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, minimum pricing on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the last couple of months, alcohol minimum pricing has been widely, and often fiercely, debated. To add to the discussion, the Faculty of Public Health decided to conduct a survey of its 3,000 public health specialist members to see what they thought. Out of the 274 Faculty respondents the vast majority (87%) supported the policy of a [...]
A major setback for Scotland’s alcohol bill?
Posted in Alcohol, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, minimum pricing, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It could have been a big day for public health in Scotland. It could have been the day when notice was served on Scotland’s ugliest health blight – its rising tide of binge drinking, drunkenness and alcohol-related illness and injury. On Thursday this week, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon introduced the Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill – [...]
Alcohol costs £2.25m per year – FPH conference told
Posted in Alcohol, tagged Alcohol, FPH, minimum pricing, Scotland on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One in 20 deaths in Scotland is linked to alcohol, said Dr Lesley Graham at the Scottish FPH conference. Scotland has the fastest growing rate of liver disease in the world, said Graham, public health lead for alcohol and on the policy team for alcohol in the Scottish government. The estimated cost to Scottish society [...]
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