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| Colin Angus |
Colin Angus is involved in a new project to help us better understand how alcohol impacts on ambulance services and how alcohol policy can change this.
Scotland introduced a Minimum Unit Price for Alcohol (MUP)
in May 2018. Alcohol places a substantial burden on emergency services and this
project will be the first to evaluate the impact on this burden of removing
cheap alcohol through MUP.
Colin, a co-investigator on the study, said: "Using
detailed ambulance call out data we will identify alcohol-related call outs and
assess whether these fell after the policy was introduced, and whether this
effect was greater or smaller among different population groups. We will also
conduct extensive interviews with front line ambulance staff to examine how
they experience and record alcohol-related call outs."
The
project is funded by the Scottish Chief Scientist Office. The research is taking
place in Scotland and it is being led by the University of Stirling and includes
collaborators from the University of Glasgow as well as Sheffield. A write-up on the funder's website is available at: https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/HIPS1857.pdf
Colin is also
involved in a number of other research projects looking at alcohol policy and MUP in
particular. Evaluating the different aspects of the policy’s impact in
Scotland. Sheffield is leading on a project to assess the impact of MUP on
harmful drinkers.
Further information is available at: http://www.healthscotland.scot/publications/evaluation-of-the-impact-of-minimum-unit-pricing-mup-in-scotland-on-those-drinking-at-harmful-levels