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<p>The Department is not currently taking specific steps to reduce the effect of stigma
on presentation and diagnosis of alcohol-related liver disease. However, there is
an ongoing focus on reducing the stigma attached to alcohol use including promoting
public awareness of how to lessen alcohol consumption, a preventable risk factor for
liver disease, through the NHS ‘Better Health’ campaign, making training to raise
awareness of alcohol stigma freely available to NHS frontline staff via the NHS e-learning
for healthcare website and specifying ‘provision of trust-wide education and training
in relation to alcohol’ as an explicit responsibility for Alcohol Care Team (ACT)
staff in the ACT Core Service Descriptor.</p><p>More broadly, through commitments
in the Drug Strategy and NHS Long Term Plan, we are facilitating more people in need
into local authority commissioned alcohol treatment. Additional treatment and recovery
funding, made available through the Drug Strategy, can be used to increase capacity
for screening for liver fibrosis in treatment settings and to establish effective
referral pathways with hepatology.</p>
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