A coalition of organisations working together to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.
8 March 2017: Responding to the Chancellor’s budget today, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said: “Whilst we would have liked to see the Chancellor increase duty on the cheapest alcohol […]
7 March 2017: Alcohol consumption statistics published by Public Health England today show that 1 in 4 adults drank over the current low-risk guideline of 14 units per week in 2011-14. The statistics also showed […]
28 February 2017: Removing alcohol adverts from streets and public transport, and phasing out alcohol sponsorship in sport are among the steps that should be taken to prevent alcohol companies reaching our children, says a […]
22 February 2017: A new report from the Institute of Alcohol Studies, Splitting the Bill: Alcohol’s Impact on the UK Economy, argues that the economic benefits of the alcohol industry are overstated, undermining the economic […]
22 February 2017: The Alcohol Health Alliance and Thames Reach are today calling for duty increases on high-strength cider, which is a leading cause of death and ill-health among the homeless. Experts will present evidence […]
7 February 2017: The Office of National Statistics (ONS) today released an estimate of the number of alcohol-related deaths in the UK in 2015. According to the figures, alcohol-related deaths have increased for the third […]
3 February 2017: Alcohol experts are calling on the Chancellor to use his Spring budget to increase duty on cheap, high strength alcohol which is putting the health and wellbeing of children and heavy […]
10 January 2017: Responding to calls today from leading public health experts for greater controls on alcohol marketing to protect children, and the publication of articles in the journal Addiction which outline the latest evidence on […]
28 December 2016: Today the BMJ Open publishes work done by researchers at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University on how the media report women’s and men’s binge drinking. The researchers found women […]
14 December 2016: Responding to the release this morning of the 2015 Health Survey for England, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: ‘We welcome the continuing downward trend in […]
