Sheffield’s Kelham Island Brewery has been saved from closure by a group of Sheffield business people. Kelham Island, which is described as the oldest independent…
Sheffield’s Kelham Island Brewery has been saved from closure by a group of Sheffield business people. Kelham Island, which is described as the oldest independent…
The campaigner who exposed Public Health England for massaging evidence to push through a reduction in UK alcohol guidelines has told DRN he believes such skulduggery is “endemic”. In January 2016, the chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, cut drinking guidelines for men from 21 units a week to 14, bringing them in line with women, and declared there is no safe level…
The researcher responsible for a Guardian front page suggesting a soaring alcohol misuse epidemic could kill 63,000 people said the real headline should have been: “slow news day produces unexpected headlines”. John Holmes, alcohol policy researcher at University of Sheffield, was responding to a Tweet from CapX editor Robert Colville. After reading the Guardian’s front page, Colville Tweeted: “This story on deaths via drinking…
David Cameron’s plans to introduce a minimum unit price on alcohol are based on flawed research and will punish moderate drinkers, according to a new report by a leading think-tank. The Adam Smith Institute tore apart research from academics at Sheffield University that has provided the backbone for the controversial plans. The university used a computer called the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model to determine that…
A 45p-per-unit minimum price coupled with total ban on discounting in the off-trade could cut consumption by 6% in its first year, according to an updated forecast by the University of Sheffield. The new report on minimum pricing, commissioned by the Scottish government, said a 50p-per-unit minimum price and a discount ban would cut alcohol-related hospital admissions by 8,600 a year, or 13.3%, and alcohol-related…
Minimum unit pricing may not stop young people binge-drinking, one of the academics behind the influential Sheffield Report on alcohol pricing has said. Dr John Holmes, of the University of Sheffield, told Holyrood’s Health & Sport Committee, which is investigating Scotland’s plan to introduce a minimum unit price on alcohol, that it is unclear how much of an effect the proposals would have on binge-drinking.
