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Most FTSE 250 companies burying heads in the sand over alcohol issues
Alcohol Concern calls for specific inclusion of alcohol policy in the Corporate Governance Code Partnership with BreathScan announced to tackle workplace drinking culture and improve employee wellbeing and productivity Alcohol Concern has today written to Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to call for greater focus [...]
A hangover cure for the hidden cost of drinking?
Although the Christmas and New Year season is often seen as the key time for excesses and over drinking, the real hangover effect is felt by businesses throughout the year. Each day over 140,000 people go into work with a hangover with a cumulative impact of £6.4bn cost to the [...]
Advice on pacing your drinking
The Christmas party season is well and truly upon us bringing a time for friends, family and festivities. And whilst having a few drinks can be fun at the time, drinking too much is likely to mean you wake up with a hangover the next morning. Although these vary in [...]
Will you be pressured into drink driving this Christmas?
Christmas 2010 was the coldest on record with temperatures of minus 18 C recorded in the Highlands of Scotland and an average temperature for December of minus 0.8 C in England. Heavy snow both in 2009 and 2010 ensured many Christmas office parties were cancelled or attended only by those [...]
Leading medical experts call for minimum pricing of alcohol
A group of leading doctors and academics have written an open letter to the media urging the Government to follow Scotland’s lead in bringing in minimum pricing for alcoholic drinks. In their letter they say: ”We urgently need to raise the price of cheap drink. Harmful drinkers and young people [...]
Lose your licence in 90-minutes if caught drink-driving
As police forces around the Country launch their Christmas drink-drive campaigns, drivers in Kent stand to lose their licence within 90 minutes if found guilty of driving drunk. Kent Police are using a system of video links between stations and courts meaning that suspects aren’t released from custody before appearing [...]
