The paper is first of all an up-to-date of the Central Policy Review Staff report on Alcohol Policies which reviewed the components of an integrated alcohol policy strategy (CPRS, 1979). That report identified sixteen Government departments with some interest in the production, distribution or...

More than 90% of the UK workforce drink alcohol and as many as 30% of male employees and 23% of female employees could be consuming quantities above ‘safe limits’. Survey results also indicate that the vast majority of dependent drinkers are in employment, Current evidence suggests that...

1. The development of a strategy based on all aspects of health, not just health care provision, is to be welcomed as it is the emphasis on the outcomes, rather than the process, of implementing health policy. Health strategies can be designed to set policy agendas, to foster inter-departmental...