GPs have stopped asking hundreds of thousands of patients if they are drinking too much alcohol

GPs have stopped asking hundreds of thousands of patients if they are drinking too much alcohol Nearly 1.6million patients haven't been asked by their GP if they consume too much alcohol following the end of a Government-run scheme.

Newcastle University experts scrutinised the move, which paid practices to screen new patients for excessive alcohol consumption.

Data revealed 92 out of every 1,000 patients were quizzed in 2006, two years before the financial incentive was introduced in England. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Impact of the introduction and withdrawal of financial incentives on the delivery of alcohol screening and brief advice in English primary health care: an interrupted time–series analysis (open access) Addiction