Create Consultancy Ltd
Units 14 & 14A
Six Harmony Row
Glasgow
G51 3BA
Phone: 0141 445 5858
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Brief Interventions
What is a brief intervention?
Whilst there is no universally agreed definition of an brief intervention on alcohol it can be described as:
a short, evidence-based, structured conversation about alcohol consumption with a patient/client, that seeks in a non-confrontational way to motivate and support the individual to think about and/or plan a change in their drinking behaviour in order to reduce their alcohol consumption and/or reduce their risk of harm.
What can Create offer?
At Create, we specialise in researching, training, resource development and consultancy on brief interventions delivery in a wide variety of settings both in Scotland and England. We have not only been involved in innovative work (such as the first international study of brief interventions by community pharmacists) but have been at the centre of brief interventions on alcohol developments in Scotland both nationally and locally for the past five years. More recently Create have also been commissioned to lead on new and innovative IBA developments in Newcastle and Wigan.
We can therefore offer:
• Unrivalled understanding of the current policy context, existing national model of brief interventions and learning from roll-out in other settings.
• Extensive and in-depth understanding of the evidence-base around brief interventions including what constitutes a brief intervention, screening methods and tools and published barriers/facilitating factors for staff in rolling out brief interventions.
• Multiple examples of previous work developing feasible and acceptable models of screening and brief intervention delivery with staff groups who have not previously been involved in brief interventions on alcohol roll-out.
Some of the Projects We Have been Involved In
National Training on ABI: 2007-10
The Scottish Government has set a target for the NHS to provide ~150,000 brief interventions on alcohol between April 2008 and April 2011. NHS Health Scotland is the national health improvement agency tasked with supporting the NHS to achieve this target. Create have been contracted by NHS Health Scotland to provide expertise on alcohol brief interventions and to support the development of a wide range of related services and resources to support the roll-out of ABI throughout Scotland. This has included the development of national training materials, and the design and delivery of training for trainers to over 120 trainers so far. Additionally Create has supported the writing of briefing papers for BI practitioners, materials to support BI delivery and has carried out scoping and mapping exercises in antenatal and A&E to identify current practice and opportunities for delivery.
Find out more about the HEAT 4 target and who the target applies to here.
Greater Glasgow Brief Interventions Training for Trainers: Nov-Dec 2009
Create Consultancy were contracted to design and deliver a new and innovative training for trainers resource and training for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde/CH(C)P on Brief Interventions in alcohol.
Glasgow Brief Interventions Training for Health and Non-Health Staff: April- July 2009
Create Consultancy were contracted to deliver over 40 1 day training courses to over 400 health and non-health care staff from across all NHS Greater Glasgow & Clydes 10 community health and social care partnerships. Training wide and diverse professional groups that included youth workers, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, police, community safety officers, mental health practitioners, community nurses etc.
The Drinking Interventions in Pharmacies Study
This study of brief interventions on alcohol in community pharmacy settings is now complete. The study, which was funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council, was the first of its kind in this setting and has shown that such interventions are feasible in community pharmacies.
Brief Intervention on Alcohol - Impact Evaluation
Create was commissioned by Monmouthshire Local Health Board in Wales to carry out an impact evaluation of training we had previously delivered on Brief Interventions on Alcohol. The training, delivered by Niamh Fitzgerald in May 2007, aimed to support community pharmacists to become skilled to screen alcohol use and deliver a brief intervention where this use was deemed to be hazardous.
The impact evaluation, carried out in May 2008 by Julie Dowds, involved follow up interviews with the pharmacists involved in the training and explored how many screenings/interventions had been carried out, what had helped/hindered the implementation of the brief interventions and most importantly what learning points could be taken to help shape future developments.
