Multiple Health Behaviours (13)

Question 1

How much does alcohol cost NHS?

Answer 1

£3.5 billion a year and 8% of all hospital admissions

Question 2

Ladder of intervention

Answer 2

• Eliminate choice
• Restrict choice
• Guide choice through disincentives
• Guide choices through incentives
• Guide choices through changing the default policy
• Enable choice
• Provide information
• Do nothing/simply monitor

Question 3

How to tackle?

Answer 3

• Further development of ‘wellness services’
• Investment in supporting and training staff to deliver the Every Contact Counts policy
• Exploiting the potential of lay and peer support